The Lost Vocation

For Cecil the preservation of the British empire provided an end towards which his country could direct its energies, and implicit in this view was the same emphasis placed on the performance of a burdensome but morally invigorating duty as is found in the poems of Kipling or the strenuous exhortations of members of the 'Milner kindergarten'. The disappearance of such a goal, it was assumed, would lead to a slackening of sinews and a falling away from the virtues attendant upon participation in what another imperialist, FitzJames Stephen, once called 'the great competitive examination

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