Cities and Citizens

Excerpt from Cities and Citizens: Or Britain's Next Campaign "Righteousness exalteth a nation." - Prov. xiv., 34. The year 1900 will be known to coming generations as one of the beacon lights in British history, but whatever the judgment of posterity concerning its aims and their outcome, it will be famous for one thing: believing their country's interests to be at stake, men in wondrous loyalty have risen by the thousand, the English, Irish, and Scotch alike bleeding bravely for its honour. We are sobering down now, the price paid was heavy, and returning from the dearly-bought ends of the Empire, a man may well survey his homeland. After all there is no place like home, and having made such an effort for our prestige abroad, let us see if we cannot do something of the sort within our own borders. Granted that we are an Imperial people; we ought to be, for our privileges are great; and if another burst of patriotism, like the one witnessed lately, yet for other aims, could leave its impress on the country's records, we might indeed win advantage for ourselves and good report among nations. 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.