Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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913

False Unity

The German Empire promised wonders to restless, grudging Europe, and not to let common sense wake us from our dreams.

914

The Temperate Zone

William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.

915

The Avengers

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.

916

The Garden and the Machine

John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.

917

Raw Haste

The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.

918

Hard Rain

Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.