Dedicated by Express Permission to 

 HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN-EMPRESS. 



'imperial Defence/' 



Sir George S. Clarke, k.g.m.g.. f.r.s., re.. 



rONTKRNS THK 



DEFENCE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 



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Part I. — Thk Empire. Part II. — Tradk. 



Part III.— The Navv. Part IV.— The Army. 



Part V. — Imperial Organisation. 



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The Times, A^tW 26tb, 1897, says:- "The conductors of the 'Imperial Librarj- ' may be con- 

 gratulated on having secured the services of Sir George Clarke to contribute an inaugural volume on 

 ' Imperial Defence.' No writer of our time is belter qualified to do justice? to so iii^'piring a theme 

 or has shown a more comprehensive grasp of its real dimensions and conditions. The growth of that 

 Imperial sentiment which makes for unity and passionately repudiates all thought of separation is 

 perhaps the most significant characteristic of the reign whose splendid achievements and long 

 duration the whole Empire is now on the eve of celebrating. If the note o.*" the last century was 

 Imperial expansion, that of the present is Imperial concentration. We have indeed, extended the 

 bounds of Empire in these latter days far more widely than our forefathers did. But the world has 

 grown smaller since the close of the last century, and with the contractions of time and space — 

 which we owe to science and to mechanical enterprise — has grown a deeper sense of kin and a 

 larger wisdom in framing that Imperial body politic of which it is the soul. It is therefore not 

 without a deep significance that Sir George Clarke's stimulating essay on ' Imperial Defence' should 

 be dedicated in this year of jubilee 'to the Queen Empress, by her Majesty's most gracious 

 permission.' . . . The method pursued by Sir George Clarke is urimpeachable, and the principles 

 enunciated by him are justified by history and now accepted by the highest authorities of the State. 

 In the coming pan- Britannic festival of the Empire the wise counsels preferred in this luminous 

 exposition of the things which belong to its peace should net pass unheeded. There is no lime 

 like the present to take thought for the common defence of what all the subjects of the Queen now 

 regard as their common and inalienable patrimony ; and we know not where to look for better 

 assistance than is to be found in this masterly essay for giving such thought precision and such 

 action consistency." 



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