Excerpt from Great Britain and Prussia in the Eighteenth Century: Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, Lent Term 1922 IN the choice of a subject for the Ford Lectures I was guided partly by the advice Of Professor Firth and partly by the memory Of the war. Professor Firth urged that I should deal with foreign relations, to which I was sufficiently inclined by my own studies and predilections. And the particular foreign relations were suggested by two considerations connected with the war Germany ...
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Excerpt from Great Britain and Prussia in the Eighteenth Century: Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, Lent Term 1922 IN the choice of a subject for the Ford Lectures I was guided partly by the advice Of Professor Firth and partly by the memory Of the war. Professor Firth urged that I should deal with foreign relations, to which I was sufficiently inclined by my own studies and predilections. And the particular foreign relations were suggested by two considerations connected with the war Germany has been so dominated and inspired by Prussia during the last half-century that in common usage the two terms have come to be regarded as almost synonymous. The recent struggle against Germany seemed to give a peculiar interest to our earlier relations with the predominant province of our late enemy. Also I was impressed by the danger that the retrospect Of the past might be coloured by the hostility aroused during the conflict. Against this danger - already conspicuous in the course of the war - and against the degradation Of history to be the handmaid Of political passion I could, at any rate, Offer a passive protest. And there was a further consideration which had some weight. It was in our relations with Germany in the eighteenth century that the Often divergent interests of Britain and Hanover were most conspicuous. The difficulty of regulating the foreign policy of a ruler who has to safeguard the welfare Of two imperfectly united states is one which confronts the British Empire, now that it has become more and more a mere personal union' in which great self-governing units claim a share in the direction Of what should be a common policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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