The South-African crisis - pagina 73

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

69

CRISIS.

"Duty and Destiny", that ever}'' powerful nation ought to foresee the mission that God has reserved for it and to order its duties according to the exigencies of the end to be Others,

attained.

you that

tell

speech

celebrated

his

in

docile adepts of transforniism, will

Qtilit}'

ought to guide

on

us,

is

the sole directing force that

and that, without any hxed

rule,

right evolves from one form into another, like cellular tissue,

simply by chance

utility,

changing from reptile

to bird/

am aware

I

the

dubious

him

for it;

opinion

and

I

that Mr. Spencer has severely censured dealings

and yet

I

of Mr.

Chamberlain;

have formed on mature

his school,

reflection, that

after a theory that

Ribot has most ably expounded to

weakening the

praise

he

by applying the Darwinism of Nature

and Ethics,

to Psychology

I

do not hesitate to impress the

fixed

us, have,

M. Th.

through

character of right, levelled the

main obstacle that Imperialism would encounter in its triumphal progress, A very well known and distinguished clergyman, Mr. R. S. de Convey Laffan, has furnished us with the indisputable proof, by his letter of

December

BeUjii of

'29.

and "social

1S99, published in the Indi'penclance

The terms, "individualist egoism" egoism", which he is fond of using, yield

January

15.

superabundant proof that he adheres to the theory of Mr. Spencer's Data.

He

Now, what

is

leaves on one side the question of right

that

the cause of the Boers

may

be

reasoning?

his ;

he admits

just, but,

even

on that supposition, he maintains "that neither on "the part of the English people nor on the part of

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