Read the excerpt from "I Believe in a British Empire" by
Joseph Chamberlain.
I cannot look forward without wdread to handing over the
security and existence of this great Empire to the hands
of those who have made common cause with its
enemies, who have charged their own countrymen with
methods of barbarism, and who apparently have been
untouched by that pervading sentiment which I found
everywhere where the British flag floats, and which has
done so much in recent years to draw us together. I
should not require to go to South Africa in order to be
convinced that this feeling has obtained deep hold on the
minds and hearts of our children beyond the seas. It has
had a hard life of it, this feeling of Imperial patriotism. It
was checked for a generation by the apathy and the
indifference which were the characteristics of our former
relations with our Colonies, but it was never
extinguished. The embers were still aliaht. and when in
Which elements of an argument do these two passages
share? Select three options.
the same claim
the same purpose
a call to action
an appeal to emotion
an appeal to reason