The South-African crisis - pagina 75

THE

SOUTH-AFRICAN

CUISI>.

and the piojects of Imperialism with the equivocal expedients

employs

it

any

scarcely

their

for

perceptible

cultivated,

is

enough

disposed

Book",

Dr.

to bend?

Kothnagel has

there

And who,

distance.

venture to deny that, in

w^onld

evolutionism

realisation

the

is

then,

where

circles

men's

minds

In

German "Golden

the

clearly

are easily

established

this

proposition: "In the sciences, in the domain of Nature,

the progress of our century has been surprising; but, the

in

point

superior to

England

away by

its

of view^

end."

especiall}^

this

of ethics,

beginning

its

runs

the

risk

of being

two

directions, in accor-

dance with the double beaten track of

more despotic empire

human

English character inclines

take everything"

is

sin,

the

of sensuality, and the empire of

and there can be no doubt to which :

side the

"to tight ever3^bod3^ and to

the vulgar expression of the arro-

gant feeling that wants to soar above affairs, this

drawn

disturbing element from moral fixity.

Ethical weakening branches in

pride;

w^as

i)

tendency lays

itself

all.

more open

In colonial to

remark

by the indisputable preeminence of the English fleet, by the superiority of every white race, and b}' the presumption that the English, the colonisers par lence,

exce/-

are the great benefactors of the countries be^'ond

However, and without wishing to deny that the settlements of Australia and New Zealand may be sea.

Revue des Deux

taken as models, M. Tilon's

article in the

Mondes of November

and Mr. Robert Buchanan's

1)

Das

fjold)ie

15.,

Baclt ties Deulsclien

V'otkii,and des JalirliKuderla eiuli'.p.G'S.

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