Nelson's Column
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Nelson's column
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The London monument to Nelson, whose yearly ceremonial crowning is cited as an expression of imperial sentiment.
The yearly crowning of Nelson’s column, the influence exerted by the writings of Froude, of Seeley, and above all of Mahan, the tales and the verses of Rudyard Kipling, with their glorification of British imperial sway, and the echo which the teaching of all these writers finds in the hearts of the English people throughout the United Kingdom and our self-governing colonies, all tell their own tale.
Law in a Free State
A monument in Trafalgar Square whose safety was invoked as a ground for official involvement in the meeting dispute.
He also applied for and obtained the approval of the Commissioners of Public Works and Buildings, though it is difficult to see what they had to do with the matter, unless it was seriously supposed that Nelson's Column and the National Gallery were in danger.