Excerpt from Great Britain's Share Fighting on British soil. Each one of them is risking his life - thousands of them have already shed their lifeblood - for the defence and the emancipation of foreign people and foreign lands. Truly we may be said to have proved ourselves the knights-errant of civilisation. I do not wish to speak of that. I wish to speak rather of our contribution to the success of others. We are so deservedly loud'in praise of the splendid efforts of our Allies that we are apt to forget our own virtues. There is much to be said for the saving grace of humility, but it is a doctrine that is capable of being pushed too far. I submit to you that we are entitled to a good conceit of ourselves. I cannot imagine a more interesting subject for an essay than a summary of the contributions that have been made in so many directions by Great Britain to' the common cause. I have in my own mind a. Sketch of how such a statement might be framed I would point out that this country is the feeder, the clothier, the carrier, the banker, the armourer, the Universal Provider of all our. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.