A political empire claims to be the high point

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British and Russian imperial armies acted in defensive wars against Afghan "barbarians" but total victory against the Afghans, never achieved, would have resulted in Afghansitan being absorbed into the empire it was fighting. Imperial expansion results from "defensive" measures which retrospectively may look extremely agressive, especially to the victims. Hitler's attack on Poland was announced by the statement "as from 4.45 am today our troops have been shooting back". The urge to justify its actions is typical of empires. A mere nation claims its rights as a matter of blood and soil. Pirates and wandering tribes do not think of justifying anything.

But an empire, whose bounds are never permanently fixed unless it be on the ever retreating horizon, seeks to justify its actions to world opinion and to posterity. even the embodiment, of hitherto existing job function email list human civilization and often an attempt to restore an idylic byegone civilization. While discovery and devestation, exploration and exploitation, cruelty and conquest in the early days are matters of heroism or banditry by individuals, later, when an empire whose flag the heroes or bandits raised, claims its prerogative to rule, it does so in the name of a universal order which is above the interests of mere individuals. In other words, an empire, while originating in and based on.

Pragmatic self-interests of individuals, claims the inspiration of a spiritual mission and with success comes confidence that faith in the spiritual mission is valid. What is the historical, providential plan, which elected the empire to be the ruler of men, which makes the imperial order the nearest to human perfection? That is the question the empire must answer, for empires, unlike nations, seek to explain the order of the world in such a way that their own imperial order may be seen as a reflection of cosmic order. Nations are ethnic or they are not nations. Empires are in the broadest sense religious or they are not empires.