ABSTRACT
Duty and Discipline Movement, the Empire Day Movement, and,
during the war, the League for the Marrying of Wounded Heroes.
multitude of charitable organizations.
the construction of a dreadnaught out of public subscriptions,
or small, however, these private clubs absorbed an enormous
amount of the community's energy and taken as a whole represented
became increasingly more common during the decade before the
proved largely unable to cope with the growing volume of labour
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Therefore, to the singc~lar Edwardian mind there was
decades of the twentieth century the League of the Empire and
sentiment to which Froude, Haldane, and others had alluded.
