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the desire for revenge and power "The right of the
strongest convinces hin'(1) Arrogance and the
inability to perceive other points of view wore taro
keynotes. Logic played little parts - the Boers
could be described almost in the came breath as a small
weak people who were daring to attack the might of the
British Empire, and an a wily, unscrupulous foe who
required to mendoun streu#th to overcome. The background
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Jingo was summarised an followal - "He reads the
Yellow papers; he given ovations in hie undergraduato
days to those of whom he only knows that they, have
helped to paint the globe red, He knacks about among
people whose two Ideals are commerce and the Empire. Xe
helps to give the troops an enthusiastic Send-off % and
feels somehow a martial glory in himself He rends the
excellent chart stories about the dominant race, given
in profusion to the English opeakcing public by an
acknowledged mentor of hin craft.. lio burns with patriotic
ardour to have l4a Juba dill wiped out; he really
believe that auch ardour in patrioticm... xt dost-not occur
(1) Westminster l viow, October 1900, Frances Heath
'rochfield, " hay development of the jingo", pP. 392.7.