[Transcriber's note: transliterated Greek is surrounded by plus signs,e.g. "+agôníai+".]
J. A. Cramb
THE
ORIGINS AND DESTINY
OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN
NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
BY THE LATE
J. A. CRAMB, M.A.
PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON
WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1915
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"For the noveltie and strangenesse of the matter which I determine anddeliberate to entreat upon, is of efficacie and force enough to drawthe mindes both of young and olde to the diligent reading and digestingof these labours. For what man is there so despising knowledge, or anyso idle and slothfull to be found, which will eschew or avoide by whatpolicies or by what kinde of government the most part of nations in theuniversall world were vanquished, subdued and made subject unto the oneempire of the Romanes, which before that time was never seen or heard?Or who is there that hath such earnest affection to other discipline orstudie, that he suposeth any kind of knowledge to be of more value orworthy to be esteemed before this?"
The Histories of the most famous Chronographer, POLYBIUS.
(Englished by C. W., and imprinted at London, Anno 1568).
PREFACE
The following pages are a reprint of a course of lectures delivered inMay, June, and July, 1900. Their immediate inspiration was the war inSouth Africa (two of the lectures deal directly with that war), but inthese pages, written fifteen years ago, will be found foreshadowed theideals and deeds of the present hour. When the book first appeared,Mr. Cramb wrote that he "had been induced to publish these reflectionsby the belief or the hope that at the present grave crisis they mightnot be without service to his country." In the same hope his lecturesare now reprinted.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
John Adam Cramb was born at Denny, in Scotland, on the 4th of May,1862. On leaving school he went to Glasgow University, where hegraduated in 1885, taking 1st Class Honours in Classics. In the sameyear he was appointed to the Luke Fellowship in English Literature. Healso studied at Bonn University. He subsequently travelled on theContinent, and in 1887 married the third daughter of the late Mr.Edward