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He had not
been able to get himself into politics, and the reason why he had
not been able to do so was that he could not induce himself to fit
in. Statecraft was a remote and faded thing in the political life
of the time; politics was a choice of two sides in a game, and
either side he found equally unattractive. Since he had come down
from Cambridge the Tariff Reform people had gone far to capture the
Conservative party. There was little chance of a candidature for
him without an adhesion to that. And he could find nothing he could
imagine himself working for in the declarations of the Tariff Reform
people. He distrusted them, he disliked them. They took all the
light and pride out of imperialism, they reduced it to a shabby
conspiracy of the British and their colonies against foreign
industrialism. They were violent for armaments and hostile to
education. They could give him no assurance of any scheme of growth
and unification, and no guarantees against the manifest dangers of
economic disturbance and political corruption a tariff involves.


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