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efficient, unconquerable men, and have we not
a Britain of apathetic,, fishy-eyed pessimists,
who prefer to follow the line of least resistance
down into oblivion?

Is it not true that you will find both sorts
among all classes ? Are there not noble workmen
 and ignoble Dukes ? Will you not find
both classes even in the same firm and the
same family ?

There is an aged, worn-out, decrepit Britain,
and there is a keen, energetic, competent,
purposeful Britain. Make no mistake about
it—the fittest will survive.

For hundreds of years the lion has been the
symbol of our race. We have carved the lion
on our national crest. We have placed great
lions of stone in Trafalgar Square, beneath the
statue of Nelson.

As the lion is the king of the jungle, so we
have climbed up to be the dominant nation of
the world. We have encircled the globe with
our language and our liberty and our flag. In
the past, we have been lions—all the world
knows that. Many a foreign tyrant has been
downed by the British lion, from Philip of
Spain to the Kaiser.

But a new sort of Briton has come to the
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