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Excerpt from The Spirit of the Allied Nations: Edited, With an Introductory Essay In its origin it is associated with a new phase of educational activity which is taking shape in London. In June 1914 the Senate of the University appointed an Imperial Studies Committee, formed of men of whom the majority had gained distinction as statesmen, jurists, administrators, historians, or academic teachers.1 The functions of this committee are to advise the governing body of the Uni versity and its colleges on those branches of study and learning which deal with the con stitutions, sociology, economics, and history, of empires and nations, particularly of the British Empire and its component nations, states, and territories. 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.