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... imagination of the man of action - the empire was an extended field of action for the latter , an extension of his scope . And that scope was moral as much as geographical ; more personal power and more heroism and greatness were ...
... imagination of the man of action - the empire was an extended field of action for the latter , an extension of his scope . And that scope was moral as much as geographical ; more personal power and more heroism and greatness were ...
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... imagination . But they were not taken seriously , at least by men of intellect , because the latter belonged to the opposite party in the cultural dialectic . One did not expect to find a first class mind writing an adventure story ; he ...
... imagination . But they were not taken seriously , at least by men of intellect , because the latter belonged to the opposite party in the cultural dialectic . One did not expect to find a first class mind writing an adventure story ; he ...
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... imagination , where everyone was , in a consciously fanciful sense , a man who would be king . Though , since the historical figures whom Carnehan and Dravitt caricature are rather African imper- ialists like Rhodes and Jameson than ...
... imagination , where everyone was , in a consciously fanciful sense , a man who would be king . Though , since the historical figures whom Carnehan and Dravitt caricature are rather African imper- ialists like Rhodes and Jameson than ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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