ANCIENT AND MODERN IMPERIALISM ANCIENT AND MODERN IMPERIALISM BY THE EARL OF CROMER G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G., LL.D., ETC. PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W, 1910 PREFACE This essay, in a very abridged form, was delivered on January 11, 1910, as an address to the Classical Association, of which body I was President for the year 1909/10. ABOUT the time when the Classical Association did me the honour of inviting me to be its President for the current year I happened to be reading a work written by a Hebrew scholar, in which I lit upon the following passage: There is a saying of an old Hebrew sage: In a place where one is unknown one is permitted to say, I am a scholar. I fear I am not sufficiently unknown in this country to permit of my making any such statement. I conceive, indeed, that the main reason why the presidency of the Association was conferred on me was that I might personally testiiy to the fact that one who can make...

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