The South-African crisis - pagina 71

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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRISIS.

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reserving only the Eastern part of Cape Colony proper

and some indispensable points on the coast, perhaps England might still change a formidable enemy into an unequalled is

ally.

But

the supreme moment.

self

again,

there be no delay.

let

Now

England must come to her-

renounce her dream of Imperialism

aud

otherwise, Imperialism will eventually destroy her, as it

destroyed ancient Rome.

XI.

must be no mistake, however: the fear that England w411 not draw back from the fatal descent The danger lies in the is far from being chimerical. indifference to moral principles and in the insufficiency There

of the Christian

movement. Mr.

Fairfield put

it

well:

Without being a moralist, I nevertheless maintain that morality and Imperialism cannot go together." ') And, three years back, Mr. Chamberlain himself still

'^

"To make war on the Boers in order to wrest from them the desired reforms would be unwise and immoral." -) The cause of this incompatibility is acknowledged

it

:

evident. Morality imposes before every thing unalterable

respect

the

for

cannot do

its

rights

of another, and Imperialism

dismal work without disregarding such

To save appearances,

rights.

then, there

conception of right which takes objective character, and

dering

it

h Stead, 2)

Speech,

its

so variable that Tlu-

SrauiUd, p.

May

8,

18%.

20.

away

is

needed a

its stability, its

inviolable holiness,

it

bends at your

by ren-

will.

Now,

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