You start out in 1759 by saying, "Empire, Empire, Empire." By 1880 you can't say "Empire"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like Free Market, Dominions, Freedom of the Seas and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about British interests, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] the rest of the world get hurt worse than the Empire. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the Imperial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to own a controlling stake in Argentine railroads ," is much more abstract than even the tariffs thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Empire, Empire."
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