. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . laws of insuranceprovoked and perpetuated the evil. The ship-owners little cared to bear the expense ofmarine improvements and of such outlays aAwere requisite to keep their ships in repair,for the reason that they were well insured,and, in hundreds of instances, it was actuallyprofitable to the owners that their vesselsshould go to the bottom of the s
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . laws of insuranceprovoked and perpetuated the evil. The ship-owners little cared to bear the expense ofmarine improvements and of such outlays aAwere requisite to keep their ships in repair,for the reason that they were well insured,and, in hundreds of instances, it was actuallyprofitable to the owners that their vesselsshould go to the bottom of the sea. But thismethod of security and gain involved the loss 418 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. of valuable merchandise aud still more valu-able luimau lives. The agitation against theexisting abuse was led by Mr. PlirasoU, aphilanthropic member of the House of Com-mons, aud after fiery aud angry debates, ex-tending to midsummer, a bill was finallypassed for the better protectiou of Englishseamen aud English commerce. With the year 1875 there came into modernBritish history a new condition, which may bedefined as Imperialism. The appearance ofsuch a fact in the midst of a democratic ageand a people politically progressive may be ac-. VICTORIA. OF INDIA. counted for by three circumstances. The firstof these was that ever-reviving Eastern Ques-tion, by which the attention of England wasdrawn away from the Home Islands, and fromWoslcrn Europe, to the countries of the East—to Egvpt, to Crete, to Greece, and to the Otto-man Empire. Familiarity with the courseof events in those far lands brought of neces-BJty, out of the Levant, a certain modicum ofEastern ideas, which, though they might neveiprow in English soil, were plantedthere in political conservatories, and looked onwith some wonder as interesting exotics. The second circumstance was the existence of theBritish East Indian Empire, and the relationsof that vast country and of those multitudi-nous p
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