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successful for a longer period than might have been 

 expected, but now on the down grade of gradual 

 decay owing to successful and ever-increasing 

 foreign competition, which is itself based on the 

 cheaper wages at which foreign labour is 

 obtainable. 



Radical changes in the political programme 

 touching foreign affairs, although severely ignored 

 by public opinion, are answerable for the deadlock 

 in commerce new soon to become a sad fact 

 unless trade reports are mere printed sheets 

 published by the father of lies himself or by a very 

 apt staff of his subordinate employees. For a long 

 period, to be counted by generations, England 

 steadily pursued a course of foreign policy having 

 for its aim the perpetuation of a state of unrest 

 and war on the Continent, which she successfully 

 carried out, not without great cost, but still within 

 limits which permitted a very sensible increase 

 in wealth, population, and prestige. 



Geographical position counted for much of the 

 success attained by acting on the lines of policy 

 indicated, and people troubled themselves very 

 little about the morality or otherwise involved. 



In, or rather shortly after, 1815 England had 



