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'The Angel of the Revolution' is part of a relatively new literary
genre, the British speculative future war novel. Interpretated in
many ways - fin-de-siecle, technophobia, British imperialism - they
anticipated modern science fiction.
There are two kinds of patriotism, a smaller and a greater, a
National and an Imperial. Both are equally good and noble, and it
is necessary that the first should precede the second. But it is
equally necessary that it should not supersede or obscure it, and
it is to this later and greater, this Imperial patriotism that I
shall appeal, and I would ask my readers, whatever their
nationality, to remember that on the burning plains of India and
the rolling prairies of Canada, in the vast expanses of the
Australian Bush and the African Veld, there are neither Englishmen
nor Scotsmen, Welshmen nor Irishmen; but only Citizens of the
Empire, brothers in blood and speech, and fellow-workers in the
building up of the noblest and stateliest fabric that human hands
have ever reared or God's sun has ever shone upon.
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