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Excerpt from Are We Worth Fighting For?
Lord Rosebery, in the course of the Boer War, made an historic remark to the effect that we should muddle through It is characteristic of our national temper that when the extraordinary efficiency of our naval and military organization was revealed to us at the beginning of this war, we all gasped with gratified astonishment. We could hardly believe it. A cynical psychologist might be tempted to describe the British as a nation with a genius for muddling through. Most of us have again and again, as we have looked back upon the last few years, been irritated and perplexed by our ever-recurring muddles. We have had the Education muddle, the Commercial muddle, the Labour muddle, and a host of other lesser muddles we have ever with us our extra ordinary religious muddle; and we came to a climax in the Irish muddle. The'outsider looking upon us might perhaps be justified in thinking that, thisseeming disin tegration was a sign of national exhaustion. It is not improbable that the Prussian militarist party based some of their calculations upon this supposition. They were misled. Beneath the seeming confusion our national unity lay secure after all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.