Excerpt from The Government Policy With Respect to AfghanistanThe whole reasoning on the other side rests upon a per sistent refusal to recognize the Russian element in the case. If this is excluded, the argument against the policy of the Government would be unanswerable. So long as we had only to do with Afghanistan, no human being would wish to establish an Embassy at Cabul or would care whether the frontier which separated the British Empire In India from five nations of savages was scientific or unscientific. But it became a very different question when 'we had to consider whether we should allow these millions of savages to be drilled, disciplined, armed and organized by Russia, and whether we should allow the mountain passes on our own borders to be converted into an impregnable outwork of the Muscovite Empire. To that question only one answer is possible, and that is the answer which it received from the Conservative Government. What I want to show is, that that was the question, and the only question. Further, that the crisis which occurred in 1878 was one to which Russian policy had been steadily advancing] for three-quarters of a century, which must have come sooner or later, and which.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.