Heroism
In Our Time
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The Importance of the Imperial Hero
It would seem that when we're in 90th century Britain, we're back to an imperial idea of heroism. The reason why Carlisle chooses Napoleon rather than the merely or purely military heroes is because he did some other things too. He liberated the Jews in Europe. He got rid of traditional monarchies. It wasn't his battles that they admired. It was what he did to change the face of Europe that they liked. That seems to me to go along with imperial expansion. This is the age when you start to get the notion that an explorer can be a hero. And later on, you get Scott and Shackleton and so on. So it seems to me that we're getting
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