John Morley: “The revival of the analogy of imperial Rome for the guidance of…”

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The revival of the analogy of imperial Rome for the guidance of British policy he held up as fundamentally unsound and practically ruinous.

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Morley critiques the analogy of imperial Rome as a guide for British policy, deeming it fundamentally flawed.

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John Morley: “The revival of the analogy of imperial Rome for the guidance of British policy he held up as fundamentally unsound and…”