The dreams it offers are no longer dreams of adventure

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The dead, energy, boldness, the spirit of adventure, a willingness to take risks, heroism, endurance, ambition, loyalty and uprightness, a comparitive laxness in religious and moral matters coupled with rigid military discipline, these are the qualities which an empire needs to grow. When they are lost the empire itself is doomed. Calling on qualities which are more then man's than the woman's, the imperial world is a man's world in which a woman feels ill at ease.

Women are by nature suspicious of empires and empire builders. Kipling believed that women could be terrible distractors from heroic tasks. Effeminacy in all its forms accompanies the decline job function email list of an Empire, when more and more people enjoy the wealth accruing from imperial might but fewer and fewer are prepared to take risks to keep or gain the sources of wealth. The love of riches remains unchanged but the will or ability to acquire them declines, or put more bluntly, the greed remains but the courage has gone.

The soldier replaces the buccaneer then the civil servant replaces the soldier then the politician replaces the civil servant, as the forger of the empire. But the politician has to listen to "his people" and their motto is "peace at any price so long as we can hang on to what others have won". The world of the empire at this stage is no longer a man's world. It is a world of speculation, extravagence, conniving, indulgence, exaggeration.