"Fear may be understood. But a curious and characteristic emotional weakness of Empire is:
"A complex of vaunting and fear.
"The vaunting is from what may be called that Titanic feeling. Many passengers on the doomed Titanic would not believe that a ship so big and grand could sink. So long as it was above water her listing deck seemed safer than a lifeboat on the open sea. So with the people of Empire."
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