The Great Boer War, Arthur Conan Doyle [classic children's novels .TXT] 📗

irritating when urged by a Boston moralist or aLondon philanthropist upon men whose whole society has been builtupon the assumption that the black is the inferior race. Such apeople like to find the higher morality for themselves, not to haveit imposed upon them by those who live under entirely differentconditions. They feel--and with some reason--that it is a cheapform of virtue which, from the serenity of a well-ordered householdin Beacon Street or Belgrave Square, prescribes what the relationshall be between a white employer and his half-savage,half-childish retainers. Both branches of the Anglo-Celtic racehave grappled with the question, and in each it has led to trouble.

The British Government in South Africa has always played theunpopular part of the friend and protector of the native servants.It was upon this very point that the first friction appearedbetween the old settlers and the new administration. A rising withbloodshed followed the arrest of a Dutch farmer who had maltreatedhis