hey call evolution should rather be called evasion. They tell us they
are opening windows of enlightenment and doors of progress. The truth is
that they are breaking up the whole house of the human intellect that
they may abscond in any direction. There is an ominous and almost
monstrous parallel between the position of their overrated philosophers
and of their comparatively underrated soldiers. For what their
professors call roads of progress are really routes of escape.

*South Africa's Boers and Britons*

*By H. Rider Haggard.*

The heart of South Africa, Boer and Briton, is with England in this war.
Here and there you will find an individual who cherishes bitter and
hostile memories, of which there has been an example in Mr. Beyers
letter the other day, so effectually answered by Gen. Botha. But such
instances, I believe, are so rare that really they are the exceptions
which seem to prove the rule. Of course, it goes without saying that
every person of English descent is heartily with the mother country, and
I do not suppose it would be an overestimate to add that quite 80 per
cent, of the Dutch are of the same way of thinking.

Still, there is a party among the South African Dutch that sees no
necessity for the invasion of German Southwest Africa. This party
overlooks the fact that the Germans have for long been preparing to
invade them; also that if by any chance Germany should conquer in this
war South Africa would be one of the first countries that they would
seize.

In speaking of this I talk of what I understand, since for the last two
and a half years it has been my duty to travel around the British Empire
upon the service of his Majesty. In addition to South Africa, I have
visited India, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Canada. I have
recently traveled throughout South Africa as a member of the Dominion's
Royal Commission. It was my first visit there after the lapse of a whole
generation, and I can only say that everywhere I have found the most
intense loyalty and devotion to the old mother land. The empire is one
and indivisible; together it will stand or together it will fall.

South Africa is united; it has forgotten its recent labor troubles. I
answer "absolutely" all such things are past history, blown away and
destroyed by this great wind of war. South Africa, down to its lowest
Hottentot, has, I believe, but one object, to help England to win in
this vast battle of the nations.