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KIPLING ON HOW EMPIRE (Laughter) A few years later be or reckoning whhout word or band embarked on the swelling tide of to limit or confirm them. (Cher) party politics in all their purity, since Where the old alien influences, that when he has rarely been allowed to be knew so well, had persisted, ori look backward and never forward, where new inluences Inspired by the We prefer Rudyard Kipling to our T-submit that each a nightmare of old were at work, he would have recent episcopal visitor, in the matter national experiences would bave seen, as he would bave expected, drīvmm an unmixed race to the "edge every help towards this war denied, of explaining how our Empire hap of lunacy. Bat the Englishman, like withheld or doled out piecemeal at a a bulit-up gun-barrel, is all one high price. He would have recognis The festival dinner of the Royal temper though welded of differenti ed that what held firm in the days of Society of St. George, held in Lon- materials, and he has strong powers the Armada held firm at Arma- don, did more than attempt to recap of resistance. (Cheers) Roman, geddon; that what had broken ture the atmosphere of Merle Norman, Papist, Cromwellian, Stuart, beneath the hand in his time was England"; it succeeded Mr. Rud-Hollander, Hanoverian aristocracy, rotten in cars. Allowing for a few yard Kipling, who presided and sub- | middle-class mid democracy, each in minor differences of equipment," he mitted the toast-of the evening, turn through a thousand years ex- would have felt like any saler or England." in the course of his perimented on him and tried to make soldier returning to some bitterly speech gave a keen, witty analysis of him to their own liking. He met each familiar job of sea patrol or trench the English character. He said: This in turn with a large-silent- toleration life between '14 and 18. Like those is an occasion when it behoves all of which they each in turn mistaäke formes, he would have taken for grant- native stupidity. He gave thers each ed very many things on which other you will let me, I will try to give you a fair trial, and, when he had quite races might have wasted valuable the reason why. Fifter or sixteen finished with them, a fair dismissal time and thought. Our stories of hundred years ago, when Rome was As an additional safeguard, he built Coronel, Zeebrugge, of the battalions mistress of the world, and the Picts up a social system divided into waters of county regiments not a year old and the Scots kept to their own side tight compartments, so arranged that who died to the last man (cheers) of the Great Roman Wall between neither the water of public panic nor as a matter of routine, on the front Carlisle and Newcastle, the story the fire of private revenge should that they were ordered to hold, would goes that Rome allowed all these creep his ship att state from end to have moved him no more and po peoples one night in the year when end. And to spite of all this, the less than the little affair of the late they could say aloud exactly what domestic sitration became too much Sir Richard Greaville of Flores in they thought of Rome, without fear for him, he coulit always go to sea the Revenge. (Cheers.)- That troopers of consequences. On that one night, and there seek or impose the peace of yeomanry in Mesopotamia, picked then, they crept out of the heather which the Papal Legate, the medieval almost at random, could singlehand ed, and within a few days by sheer force of character conciliate and con trol turbulent Arab villages, would have amazed them no more and no

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in droves, lit their little wandering trade union, or a profigate Chancellor fires, and criticised the Libyan of the Exchequer denied him at Generals, the Roman pontiffs, and home." (Laughter.) the Eastern camp followers who look

BIRTH OF THE EMPIRE ed down on them from the top of the

And thus, gentlemen-not in a fit less than any story of Panama; or huge unbreakable Roman Wall six- teen hundred years ago. Today,

of absence of mind was the Empire our first venture round the globe bora. It was, the outcome of the told by any follower of Sir Franci Imperial Rome is dead; the Wall is

Drake, or some forgotten captain of relaxations of persecuted specialists, down; the Pict's and the Scots are on this side of it, but, thanks to the men who for one cause or another that age. Being of the breed, he Royal Society of St. George, there is were unfit for the rough-and-tumble ould have known the breed and still one night in the year when the of home-life. They did it in search taken the work of the breed for

granted. English can creep out of their hiding-cf rest and change, much as we go places and whisper to each other for summer holidays, and, like our what we think about ourselves.selves, they took their national habits. And herein, as I see it, lies the (Cheers.)

No! It is safer not to with them. They did not offen gather strength of the English that they criticise our masters, who tax us, together with harpe and rebecks to have behind them this continuity of educate us, and try us, and minister celebrate their national glories or immensely varied race-experience so abundantly to what they instruct us hymn their national heroes. When and race-memory, running -through like ourselves, every class back to the very dawn of our wants ought to be. (Laughter.) they did not,

granted our dawn, - which... “unconsciously Since these masters of ours have not take them both for

the one imposes on them, éven while they quite the old untroubled assurance of they generally deny power and experience which made and tried to impeach the other. But deride standards of achievement, and Rome so tolerant in the days when by some mysterious rule of thumb comparison hard it may be and a the Picts and the Scots lived on the magic they did establish and maintain little unsympathetic, but not low, other sider of the Wall, we will con- a reasonable peace and security and, as all earth is witness, not easily fine ourselves to our own popular among simple folkin many partof the lowered Lord cheers) That is the world, and that without oversuch reason why, in things nearest our and well-recognised defects as a

murder, oppression, or torture. It hearts, we praise so little and criticise breed.

may be that the success of the Eng- so lavishly. It is the only compli Some of our sternest critics who, lish was due to their imperturbable ment that an Englishman dares pay of course, have always been of our tolerance. (Cheers.) A breed that his country. (Laughter.) As you know, own household; say there never was has been persecuted, or what comes these standards do not appear on the such a thing as the English race to the same thing, bored by every surface, or in men's mouths. When that it is at best: the intolerably persecuted refugee to whom it has they do they are mostly translated insolent outcome of ancient invasions ever given asylum, learns to tolerate into terms of sport or the slang of and immigration, freshened with anything. Their immensely mixed various games, but where the English mare recent Continental jail origins made them, too, in a real deal with each other or the outside deliveries. Far be it from me to sense, akin to all the universe, and world in earnest, these standards are traverse these statements. I give sympathetic in their dumb fashion taken for granted, and it is by the them on no less authority than that towards remote peoples and strange things which we take for granted, of the late Mr. Daniel Defoe, a Every gods. Above all, their long insular without words spoken, that we live man of the City of London, and experience of imported brainstorms It was taken for granted by all.com author of Robinson Crusoe and a bad taught them the wisdom of the cerned during the war that every day pamphlet called the "Trueborn Eng old proverb that men should not was St. George's day on one or other fishman." He deals with the English try to do better than good for fear of our seven fronts. (Loud cheers.) very faithfully so faithfully that, in lest worse than bad might follow. And now we and our kin after the deference to the susceptibilities of

great years are sick; shaken, and other peoples, I will not give his account of an Englishman's pedigree,

There has been a good deal of dizzy like all convalescents, a little bat, in his summing up of the trae- worse than bad in the world lately. inclined to pity ourselves, a little born Englishman, he says

Our national weakness for taking inclined to live on invalid's slops as the easiest way till the last possible long as possible, and more than a moment, sooner than inconvenience little inclined to mistake the hysteria ourselves or our neighbours, has of convalescence for signs of new been, visited upon as in full measure, life and thought. But here also in- After ninety-nine years of peace there stinct tells us that our national past came a day when the English were bas dowered us with a sufficiency of

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A metaphor intended to express A man akin to all the universe.

THE NATIONAL WEAKNESS,,

In that last line Defoe, Ithink, has slip-given less than ainety-six hours to baliast to navigate through whatever choose whether they would buy a storms or brain storms may be ped into a blessing where he meant little longer peace from the heathenahead. (Cheers) We are threatened to curse; for "a man akin to all the in the North, as their fathers had with several. One school of thought, universe" cannot be wholly vile. He bought it, or made peace with them Muscovite in origin, holds, as the must have some points of contact as our King Alfred had made it. As Danes did twelve hundred years ago, with humanity; and the Englishman a race they had forgotten how to that rapine and scientific torture will has had several.

say "No" to anyone who said "Yes" elevate our ideals, which up to the EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH. in a sufficiently loud voice; they had present have only taught us to do The Phoenicians taught him the quite forgotten that they had broken our duty to God and our neighbours. elements of shopkeeping; the Roa Church, killed one king, closed a (Cheers.) Others again are content mans taught him love of sport by Protectorate, and exiled another king to work for the organised bankruptcy hiring him to fight beasts in their sooner than be driven where they did of all things that are of good report, arenas. Under the Heptarchy he not desire to go. But, when their as well as for the systematic betrayal studied social reform, which in those hour came again, they decided once of our friends; very much indeed on tinenlightened days consisted in rais again, and once again by instinct, to the same lines, as people used to ing a levy on capital, to buy off the go their own way, for, once again, panic after a crusade or a visitation heathen of the North sea from tak-they had prepared nothing, they had of the plague. We are further pro- ing direct action against English foreseen nothing. They had been mised an unparalleled outbreak of industries. (Laughter.) He next assured that not only was there no education guaranteed to produce a took a 300 years' course of colloquial need for preparation against war, standardised State-aided mind. The and law, French under eminent Nor- but that the mere thought of it was Church evolved a parallel system in tran teachers. He did not learn absurd, where it was not criminal, the Middle Ages, which, much to her the language then or since, but Therefore, through the first two surprise, produced the Reformation. it left him with a profound respect, rears of the war, it was Lastly, lest we should ever again based on experience, for his neigh necessary to throw up a barricade of lapse into pathetic contentment, the bours across the Channel, and a convic the dead bodies of the nation's youth breed which organised at. a week's tion which timchasdeepened that they behind which the most elementary notice to achieve the impossible and

achieved it; by earth, sea, and air | were the only other people in the preparations could be begun. world who really mattered. For 500 Though there had been no such achieved it loud cheers) is, as a years his domestic and foreign policy slaughter of the English in all history, reward to be ruthlessly reorganised was largely controlled by Italian, the actual war was no more than a in every detail of its daily life, walk, French, and Spanish, with occasional large-scale repetition of national ex- and conduct. This, great work was Austrian politico-ecclesiastical auth-perience in the past. If an Elizabe begun by William the Conqueror, orities, who tried to teach him that than statesman or adventurer, had A.D. 1066, and has been before com "this realin of England" was but returned to England during the war mittee or commission ever since. part of a vast international organisa. Ithink in a very short time he would (Laughter.) Norman, Papist, Crom- Lion embracing, instructing, and pro- have been able to pick up his office wellian, Stuart, Hollander, Hano- aristocracy, middle-class, tecting all the world. He escapedwork where he had dropped it. His verian, from these embraces only to be sub-reports and his maps would have democracy, hare each in turn tried jected to the full rigour of the Puritan been enlarged, but otherwise be their fleeting band on the tuan akin conscience, which was then largely would have been surprisingly abreast to all the universe. From each, in directed by gentlemen from Geneva, of the situation, Where the old turn he has taken what he wanted; Leyden, Amsterdam, and the Low English influences had struck deep he has given them each a fair, trial, Countries. While thus employed he the world over, he would have seen and, when he has quite finished, an was, under pretext of union, finally help and comfort hurried up to the equally fair dismissal, and fatally subjugated by the Scots front the world over without count

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