Read the excerpt from "I Believe in a British Empire" by
Joseph Chamberlain
Which elements of an argument do these two passages
share? Select three options.
the same claim
the same purpose
Da call to action
an appeal to emotion
I cannot look forward without dread 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 alight, and when in the late war this old country of ours
an appeal to reason