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The choice between Europe and America which has come to dominate the future of British politics is not only a matter of identity and security. Europe and America have also come to represent different models of economic, political, and social organization as far as political debates in Britain are concerned.2 As argued throughout this book, the debates are often as much within Anglo-America, or within Europe, as between them. But Europe and America have increasingly been used on both sides of the debate in British politics as convenient terms to denote rival ideals to be promoted or avoided.
No unbiased observer who derives pleasure from the welfare of his species, can fail to consider the long and uninterruptedly increasing prosperity of England as the most beautiful phenomenon in the history of mankind. Climates more propitious may impact more largely the mere enjoyment of existence, but in no other region have the benefits that political institutions can confer been diffused over so extended a population; nor have any people so well reconciled the discordant elements of wealth, order and liberty.
Henry Hallam, 18181
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Gamble, A. (2003). The English Model. In: Between Europe and America. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4045-2_7
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