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It is notable that Britain's greatest period of influence and expansion, the foundation of all her later strengths – i.e., the period from c.1650 to c.1850, and more particularly the eighteenth century – provided (at least on my interpretation) a balanced framework of relative (but not rigid) order at home within which could be founded development as the product of great creative genius, both economically at home and territorially abroad. By the time of late Victorian rigidity, it is arguable that both economy and empire had begun their decay.

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