The South-African crisis - pagina 68

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THE SOUT-AFRICAN

64

addressed

the voice of Ezekiel (xxviii

b}^

it

CRISIS.

:

4

— 9)

"With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and 'hast gotten

gold and silver into thy treasures.

wisdom and by thy thy

great

hast thou increased

traffic

and thine heart

riches,

By thy

is

lifted

up because

of thy riches. Therefore thus saith the Lord

God

'Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God' behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee,

the terrible of the nations, and

swords

they shall

the

to

draw

their

of th}^ wisdom, and

thy brightness. They shall bring

defile

down

thee

beauty

the

against

th}^ shall

and thou

pit,

shalt die the

deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the

him that slayeth thee, 'I am God?' But thou shalt be a man, and hand no God, in the of him that slayeth thee." This Imperialism, further, submerges more and more seas.

the

.

Wilt thou

national

idea

and, in return, to

social

tries to assimilate the it permits, it

movement

the peripher}^, provided

movement. its

decisions,

risk

Urbi

and

being

of

before

under an oecumenical conception,

national type,

its

every

it

say

to the it

most distant point of

remains the centre of such becomes,

orbi

et

whole world

even encourages,

ever}^

time

disputed,

the

its

the

tacit title of

supremacy runs the

Machiavellian

principle

of Salus reipublicae suprema lex esto stifles in the

of the

nation

its

Hamilton did not those

holiest fear

who rendered

^'because

to

aspirations.

mass

Lord George

vaunt the patriotism of

abortive

they had behaved as

Jameson inquiry, Englishmen always do the

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