The foundation of empire is art & science. Remove them or degrade them, & the empire is no more. Empire follows art & not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. - William Blake, Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses (c. 1808; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1957)
It is rumoured that on his death bed, King George V gazed up into the faces of his mourning royal entourage and asked "How is the Empire?"; the final words to part the lips of a dying king before entrusting his soul to God. It has since been at times difficult to convince the Brits that the Empire too is dead - or at least resurrected as independent (if somewhat schizophrenic) progeny of the Motherland. Indeed, try as we might, children will we alway
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