“The North is my thought” (Cecil Rhodes: His Political Life and Speeches, p.613).
Passages from a recent report of the British Consul at Canton.
An address at the annual meeting of the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, May 4, 1900.
The Chinese Crisis from Within, by Wen Ching, pp.10, 12, 14 (Grant Richards).
The River War, by Winston Churchill, vol.ii, pp.204-206.
The British Empire, p.114.
Imperialism, p.7.
“There are masked words droning and skulking about us in Europe just now which nobody understands, but which everybody uses and most people will also fight for, live for, or even die for, fancying they mean this or that or the other of things dear to them. There never were creatures of prey so mischievous, never diplomatists so cunning, never poisons so deadly, as these masked words; they are the unjust stewards of all men’s ideas; whatever fancy or favourite instinct a man most cherishes he gives to his favourite masked word to take care of for him; the word at last comes to have an infinite power over him, and you cannot get at him but by its ministry” (Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies, p.29).