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The British Empire was fortunate to be served by pragmatists. Only Alfred Milner insisted on basing his career upon a philosophy of its purposes, seeing them through a veil of mysticism or (as his enemies would say) nonsense. Because he did so he remains an exotic in modern British history, a man who stands at the gate of a path no one else wanted to take.
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A. M. Gollin, Proconsul in Politics: a Study of Lord Milner in Opposition and in Power London, 1964).
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Thornton, A.P. (1968). The Patriot. In: For the File on Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81777-1_5
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