The South-African crisis - pagina 65

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

Gl

CRISIS.

charge the glorious nation, which throughout the century

war

opinion,

not

is

war

In several respects that nation, in

results.

futile

others,

—

and conquest which can only have

rapine

of

all

of this absolutely iniquitous

crime

with the a

and progressive above

been hberal

has

surpassed

by any

If I

other.

my

were

should like to be one of her sons. As a rule her veracity is above all suspicion. She has

not a

Dutchman

an innate sense tional

I

of

institutions

Her

duty and of right.

have

been imitated

all

constitu-

the world

Nowhere will you find self-respect more finely developed. Her literature, though inferior from a merely over.

artistic point of view,

glows with a conception of

life

altogether serious, healthy, and profound. Even in the style of her fashions and in the care of the body,

she

exhibits

a

character

of dignity

which compels

Her philanthropy knows no

respect.

bounds;

her

above the average; and as regards religious activity she marches at the head of all other nations. How is it, then, that such a nation can have come morality

to

is

such a

found in

taken in

The solution of the enigma must be the magic charm of the word Imperialism a national sense, quite different from the fall

?

personal Imperialism of an Alexander the Great or a Naix)leon. At one time only until now has the pheno-

menon

of national imperialism been observed in history,

Romans. The same phenomenon now reappears in the mania of Anglo-Saxon jingoism. The analogies between the two are really At Rome as in London there was the strictest striking. regard for the rights of the citizens and at the same namely

in the Coesarisraf of the

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