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world would be given to anarchy. "
(1)
And a Pont
correspondent, n2 rim one of hundreds of thousands who
admire and reopoct you, for the work you have done in
helping to build up and consolidate this great Empire
of ours and especially in saving South Africa from
becoming 4 Dutch Republic and in drawing the colonies
closer
to the Mother Country, *'$
(2)
The South
African conflict was thus not coon purely in its own
context but as an element of the wider Imperial
Aioaion. This line of thought was echoed in a Dam il
Mandl editorial on the relief of Ladysmith, "An victory
comes in after victory wo fool and know that the Power
that ruins this world is not against us and our Emp. ro#
that wo an a race have been weighed in th6 balance and
not found wanting, and that all the high ideals door to
us and represented in that Empire will uot: give way to
lower and baser ctvilizatioun, The cause of, froodoo has
triumphed once more. "
(3)
Imperialists wore awaro that
(1) JC 12' 2, '?
_/3, . hohn England of Birmineham and Belfast.
(2) JC 1. /2/; j2}, 3.11. ChevalUer.
(3) 2nd march 1900.