Admirals of the British Navy Portraits in Colours with Introductory and Biographical Notes
English


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if the English are singularly incurious about their Navy that attitude must not be thought to imply neglect. On the contrary it is a blend of admiration respect and above all confidence induced very largely by the Navy itself. For so long has the Navy minded its own silent business that we—otherwise so inquisitive a people—have come to look upon it as beyond examination and (normally too eager to cut open the drum and explore its resources) trustfully to leave it to its own devices conscious that those devices are wholly in our own interests. As Matthew Arnold said in his sonnet to Shakespeare: Others abide our question thou art free— so do we address the Navy. For although it baffles curiosity and ends by eliminating it it is only to substitute faith. We do not take for granted all the things that we cannot understand: sometimes indeed we deny them; but we are satisfied to take for granted the Navy. We know that it is there. Where there is we may have no notion; by there we mean probably everywhere. The Navy is not only there the Navy is everywhere and therefore alls well. That is our simple creed
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