PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to
nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular
memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to which we
belong. The history of the Empire of which are subject, -the story
of the struggles and sufferings by which it has been built up-is
thc best legacy which the past has bequeathed to us. But it is a
treasure strangely neglected. The Statc makes primary education its
anxious care, yet it does not make its own history a vital part of
that education. There is red danger that for the average youth the
great names of British story may become meaningless sounds, that
his imagination will take no colour from the rich and deep tints of
history. And what a pallid, cold-blooded citizenship this must
produce War belongs, no doubt, to an imperfect stage of society it
has a side of pure brutality. But it is not all brutal...
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