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CONTENTS

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Introduction xi
By C. S. Goldman
The Heritage 1
By Rudyard Kipling

PART I
THE IMPERIAL ORGANISM

I.—PRINCIPLES OF EMPIRE

The Imperial Ideal 5
By W. F. Monypenny
The Crown and the Empire 29
By Bernard Holland, C.B.
The Law and the Constitution 37
By John Buchan

II.—MECHANISM OF EMPIRE
Imperial Trade 52
By Henry Birchenough, C.M.G.
The Maintenance of Empire: A Study of the Economic Basis of Political Power 69
By J. L. Garvin,
Editor of The Outlook
Free Trade and the Empire 144
By J. S. Loe Strachey,
Editor of The Spectator

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