Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has only recently blogrolled Col. Blimpish’s site. But it has been a site that your Maximum Leader has kept his eyes on for a while.

As so many of you know, your Maximum Leader is an Anglophile of the highest order. And a thoughtful discussion of the British Empire is sure to catch your Maximum Leader’s attention.

Obviously, Col. Blimpish aims to please.

Your Maximum Leader wanted to add to the list of philosophical themes in British Imperialism, but really can’t add to the major themes already listed. But he would suggest to Misspent that “drilling down” on Blimpish’s #2 could be interesting. Your Maximum Leader has read some wonderful first-hand as well as secondary accounts of the work of missionaries in Africa particularly. Fascinating stuff really.

Of course, it also amuses your Maximum Leader that the Episcopalians sent missionaries around the Empire. Episcopalians? Proselytizing? No! Surely not! One would think that you would have to have a certain religious fervor to proselytize. And your Maximum Leader can’t imagine an Episcopalian getting fervent about anything. Well theoretically he can imagine them getting fervent about how poorly the English national team fares in the World Cup; but certainly not getting fervent about anything religious. (It’s that whole Eddie Izzard “Cake or Death!” meme.)

Anyway. Read Blimpish’s bit. Quite good.

Carry on.