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How the English saw themselves at the height of Empire – Cecil Rhodes’
will
Posted on February 11, 2013by Robert Henderson
Today the English are frequently represented by the politically
correct left liberals as being a people without any sense of
identity, indeed, not really a Nation at all. The politically
correct are able to freely peddle this fantasy because at present they
have a vice-like grip on power which allows them to pass laws which
make it dangerous to express ideas such as thegreat historical
achievement of the English as a people; English anger at the mass
immigration into England and, indeed, any expression of pride in
being English. They also use their control of the media to censor
such ideas and promote multiculturalist pro-immigrant propaganda.
This propaganda has also been institutionalised in England’s schools
and universities.
Things were very different in the past. At the height of British
imperial power the English (and both the English themselves and
foreigners spoke of England not Britain at that time) commonly
believed that England was the most civilised country in the word with
the most exceptional people, a people so blessed that it was for the
good of the human race that they should administer much of the world.
The final version of the will of Cecil Rhodes which I reproduce below
will seem extreme to modern eyes, especially to those conditioned by
ceaseless pc propaganda decrying both England’s past and the reality
of the English as a people. But Rhodes did not seem extreme in his
own time. There were of course English people then who opposed his
imperial plans on moral grounds but they were very much in the
minority. Rhodes was within the mainstream of Victorian British
imperial thinking, Most importantly, Rhodes was accepted by the
British political elite as someone who should be listened to, not
written off as a dangerous extremist.
———————————————————————————————————-
The final will of Cecil Rhodes
It often strikes a man to enquire what is the chief goal in life; to
one the thought comes that it is a happy marriage, to another great
wealth, and as each seizes on his idea, for that he more or less works
for the rest of his existence. To myself thinking over the same
question the wish came to render myself useful to my country. I then
asked myself how could I and after reviewing the various methods I
have felt that at the present day we are actually limiting our
children and perhaps bringing into the world half the human beings we
might owing to the lack of country for them to inhabit {a lebensraum
argument} that if we had retained America there would at this moment
be millions more of English living. I contend that we are the finest
race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better
it is for the human race . Just fancy those parts that are at present
inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an
alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon
influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to
our dominions gives. I contend that every acre added to our territory
means in the future birth to some more of the English race who
otherwise would not be brought into existence . Added to this the
absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply
means the end of all wars, at this moment had we not lost America I
believe we could have stopped the Russian-Turkish war by merely
refusing money and supplies. Having these ideas what scheme could we
think of to forward this object. I look into history and I read the
story of the Jesuits I see what they were able to do in a bad cause
and I might say under bad leaders.
In the present day I became a member of the Masonic order I see the
wealth and power they possess the influence they hold and I think over
their ceremonies and I wonder that a large body of men can devote
themselves to what at times appear the most ridiculous and absurd
rites without an object and without an end.
The idea gleaming and dancing before one’s eyes like a will-of-the
wisp at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not form a
secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British
Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British
rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-
Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is
possible. I once heard it argued by a fellow in my own college, I am
sorry to own it by an Englishman, that it was a good thing for us that
we have lost the United States. There are some subjects on which there
can be no arguments, and to an Englishman this is one of them, but
even from an American’s point of view just picture what they have
lost, look at their government, are not the frauds that yearly come
before the public view a disgrace to any country and especially
their’s which is the finest in the world. Would they have occurred had
they remained under English rule great as they have become how
infinitely greater they would have been with the softening and
elevating influences of English rule, think of those countless 000′s
of Englishmen that during the last 100 years would have crossed the
Atlantic and settled and populated the United States. Would they have
not made without any prejudice a finer country of it than the low
class Irish and German emigrants? All this we have lost and that
country loses owing to whom? Owing to two or three ignorant pig-headed
statesmen of the last century, at their door lies the blame. Do you
ever feel mad? do you ever feel murderous. I think I do with those
men. I bring facts to prove my assertions. Does an English father when
his sons wish to emigrate ever think of suggesting emigration under
another flag, never – it would seem a disgrace to suggest such a thing
I think that we all think that poverty is better under our own flag
rather than wealth under a foreign one.
Put your mind into another train of thought. Fancy Australia
discovered and colonised under the French flag, what would it mean
merely several millions of English unborn that at present exist we
learn from the past and to form our future. We learn through having
lost to cling to wehat we possess. We know the size of the world we
know the total extent. Africa is still lying ready for us it is our
duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every oportunity of acquiring
more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our
eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race
more of the best the most human, most honourable race the world
possesses.
To forward such a scheme what a splendid help a secret society would
be a society not openly acknowledged but who would work in secret for
such an object.
I contend that there are at the present moment numbers of the ablest
men in the world who would devote their whole lives to it. I often
think what a loss to the English nation in some respects the abolition
of the Rotten Borough System has been. What thought strikes a man
entering the house of commons, the assembly that rules the whole
world? I think it is the mediocrity of the men but what is the cause.
It is simply – an assembly of wealth of men whose lives have been
spent in the accumulation of money and whose time has been too much
engaged to be able to spare any for the study of past history. And yet
in the hands of such men rest our destinies. Do men like the great
Pitt, and Bourke and Sheridan not now exist. I contend they do. There
are men now living with I know no other term the mega chschegis of
Aristotle but there are not ways for enabling them to serve their
Country. They live and die unused unemployed. What has been the main
cause of the success of the Romish Church? The fact that every
enthusiast, call it if you like every madman finds employment in it.
Let us form the same kind of society a Church for the extension of the
British Empire. A society which should have its members in every part
of the British Empire working with one object and one idea we should
have its members placed at our universities and our schools and should
watch the English youth passing through their hands just one perhaps
in every thousand would have the mind and feelings for such an object,
he should be tried in every way, he should be tested whether he is
endurant, possessed of eloquence, disregardful of the petty details of
life, and if found to be such, then elected and bound by oath to serve
for the rest of his life in his Country. He should then be supported
if without means by the Society and sent to that part of the Empire
where it was felt he was needed.
Take another case, let us fancy a man who finds himself his own master
with ample means on attaining his majority whether he puts the
question directly to himself or not, still like the old story of
virtue and vice in the Memorabilia a fight goes on in him as to what
he should do. Take it he plunges into dissipation there is nothing too
reckless he does not attempt but after a time his life pulls on him,
he mentally says this is not good enough, he changes his life, he
reforms, he travels, he thinks now I have found the chief good in
life, the novelty wears off, and he tires, to change again, he goes
into the far interior after the wild game he thinks at last I’ve found
that in life of which I cannot tire, again he is disappointed. He
returns he thinks is there nothing I can do in life? Here I am with
means, with a good house, with everything that is to envied and yet I
am not happy I am tired of life he possesses within him a portion of
the mega chschegis of Aristotle but he knows it not, to such a man
the Society should go, should test, and should finally show him the
greatness of the scheme and list him as a member.
Take one more case of the younger son with high thoughts, high
aspirations, endowed by nature with all the faculties to make a great
man, and with the sole wish in his life to serve his Country but he
lacks two things the means and the opportunity, ever troubled by a
sort of inward deity urging him on to high and noble deeds, he is
compelled to pass his time in some occupation which furnishes him with
mere existence, he lives unhappily and dies miserably. Such men as
these the Society should search out and use for the furtherance of
their object.
(In every Colonial legislature the Society should attempt to have its
members prepared at all times to vote or speak and advocate the closer
union of England and the colonies, to crush all disloyalty and every
movement for the severance of our Empire. The Society should inspire
and even own portions of the press for the press rules the mind of the
people. The Society should always be searching for members who might
by their position in the world by their energies or character forward
the object but the ballot and test for admittance should be severe).
Once make it common and it fails. Take a man of great wealth who is
bereft of his children perhaps having his mind soured by some bitter
disappointment who shuts himself up separate from his neighbours and
makes up his mind to a miserable existence. To such men as these the
society should go gradually disclose the greatness of their scheme and
entreat him to throw in his life and property with them for this
object. I think that there are thousands now existing who would
eagerly grasp at the opportunity. Such are the heads of my scheme.
For fear that death might cut me off before the time for attempting
its development I leave all my worldly goods in trust to S. G.
Shippard and the Secretary for the Colonies at the time of my death to
try to form such a Society with such an object.
http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/how-the-english-saw-themselves-at-the-height-of-empire-cecil-rhodes-will/
will
Posted on February 11, 2013by Robert Henderson
Today the English are frequently represented by the politically
correct left liberals as being a people without any sense of
identity, indeed, not really a Nation at all. The politically
correct are able to freely peddle this fantasy because at present they
have a vice-like grip on power which allows them to pass laws which
make it dangerous to express ideas such as thegreat historical
achievement of the English as a people; English anger at the mass
immigration into England and, indeed, any expression of pride in
being English. They also use their control of the media to censor
such ideas and promote multiculturalist pro-immigrant propaganda.
This propaganda has also been institutionalised in England’s schools
and universities.
Things were very different in the past. At the height of British
imperial power the English (and both the English themselves and
foreigners spoke of England not Britain at that time) commonly
believed that England was the most civilised country in the word with
the most exceptional people, a people so blessed that it was for the
good of the human race that they should administer much of the world.
The final version of the will of Cecil Rhodes which I reproduce below
will seem extreme to modern eyes, especially to those conditioned by
ceaseless pc propaganda decrying both England’s past and the reality
of the English as a people. But Rhodes did not seem extreme in his
own time. There were of course English people then who opposed his
imperial plans on moral grounds but they were very much in the
minority. Rhodes was within the mainstream of Victorian British
imperial thinking, Most importantly, Rhodes was accepted by the
British political elite as someone who should be listened to, not
written off as a dangerous extremist.
———————————————————————————————————-
The final will of Cecil Rhodes
It often strikes a man to enquire what is the chief goal in life; to
one the thought comes that it is a happy marriage, to another great
wealth, and as each seizes on his idea, for that he more or less works
for the rest of his existence. To myself thinking over the same
question the wish came to render myself useful to my country. I then
asked myself how could I and after reviewing the various methods I
have felt that at the present day we are actually limiting our
children and perhaps bringing into the world half the human beings we
might owing to the lack of country for them to inhabit {a lebensraum
argument} that if we had retained America there would at this moment
be millions more of English living. I contend that we are the finest
race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better
it is for the human race . Just fancy those parts that are at present
inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an
alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon
influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to
our dominions gives. I contend that every acre added to our territory
means in the future birth to some more of the English race who
otherwise would not be brought into existence . Added to this the
absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply
means the end of all wars, at this moment had we not lost America I
believe we could have stopped the Russian-Turkish war by merely
refusing money and supplies. Having these ideas what scheme could we
think of to forward this object. I look into history and I read the
story of the Jesuits I see what they were able to do in a bad cause
and I might say under bad leaders.
In the present day I became a member of the Masonic order I see the
wealth and power they possess the influence they hold and I think over
their ceremonies and I wonder that a large body of men can devote
themselves to what at times appear the most ridiculous and absurd
rites without an object and without an end.
The idea gleaming and dancing before one’s eyes like a will-of-the
wisp at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not form a
secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British
Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British
rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-
Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is
possible. I once heard it argued by a fellow in my own college, I am
sorry to own it by an Englishman, that it was a good thing for us that
we have lost the United States. There are some subjects on which there
can be no arguments, and to an Englishman this is one of them, but
even from an American’s point of view just picture what they have
lost, look at their government, are not the frauds that yearly come
before the public view a disgrace to any country and especially
their’s which is the finest in the world. Would they have occurred had
they remained under English rule great as they have become how
infinitely greater they would have been with the softening and
elevating influences of English rule, think of those countless 000′s
of Englishmen that during the last 100 years would have crossed the
Atlantic and settled and populated the United States. Would they have
not made without any prejudice a finer country of it than the low
class Irish and German emigrants? All this we have lost and that
country loses owing to whom? Owing to two or three ignorant pig-headed
statesmen of the last century, at their door lies the blame. Do you
ever feel mad? do you ever feel murderous. I think I do with those
men. I bring facts to prove my assertions. Does an English father when
his sons wish to emigrate ever think of suggesting emigration under
another flag, never – it would seem a disgrace to suggest such a thing
I think that we all think that poverty is better under our own flag
rather than wealth under a foreign one.
Put your mind into another train of thought. Fancy Australia
discovered and colonised under the French flag, what would it mean
merely several millions of English unborn that at present exist we
learn from the past and to form our future. We learn through having
lost to cling to wehat we possess. We know the size of the world we
know the total extent. Africa is still lying ready for us it is our
duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every oportunity of acquiring
more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our
eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race
more of the best the most human, most honourable race the world
possesses.
To forward such a scheme what a splendid help a secret society would
be a society not openly acknowledged but who would work in secret for
such an object.
I contend that there are at the present moment numbers of the ablest
men in the world who would devote their whole lives to it. I often
think what a loss to the English nation in some respects the abolition
of the Rotten Borough System has been. What thought strikes a man
entering the house of commons, the assembly that rules the whole
world? I think it is the mediocrity of the men but what is the cause.
It is simply – an assembly of wealth of men whose lives have been
spent in the accumulation of money and whose time has been too much
engaged to be able to spare any for the study of past history. And yet
in the hands of such men rest our destinies. Do men like the great
Pitt, and Bourke and Sheridan not now exist. I contend they do. There
are men now living with I know no other term the mega chschegis of
Aristotle but there are not ways for enabling them to serve their
Country. They live and die unused unemployed. What has been the main
cause of the success of the Romish Church? The fact that every
enthusiast, call it if you like every madman finds employment in it.
Let us form the same kind of society a Church for the extension of the
British Empire. A society which should have its members in every part
of the British Empire working with one object and one idea we should
have its members placed at our universities and our schools and should
watch the English youth passing through their hands just one perhaps
in every thousand would have the mind and feelings for such an object,
he should be tried in every way, he should be tested whether he is
endurant, possessed of eloquence, disregardful of the petty details of
life, and if found to be such, then elected and bound by oath to serve
for the rest of his life in his Country. He should then be supported
if without means by the Society and sent to that part of the Empire
where it was felt he was needed.
Take another case, let us fancy a man who finds himself his own master
with ample means on attaining his majority whether he puts the
question directly to himself or not, still like the old story of
virtue and vice in the Memorabilia a fight goes on in him as to what
he should do. Take it he plunges into dissipation there is nothing too
reckless he does not attempt but after a time his life pulls on him,
he mentally says this is not good enough, he changes his life, he
reforms, he travels, he thinks now I have found the chief good in
life, the novelty wears off, and he tires, to change again, he goes
into the far interior after the wild game he thinks at last I’ve found
that in life of which I cannot tire, again he is disappointed. He
returns he thinks is there nothing I can do in life? Here I am with
means, with a good house, with everything that is to envied and yet I
am not happy I am tired of life he possesses within him a portion of
the mega chschegis of Aristotle but he knows it not, to such a man
the Society should go, should test, and should finally show him the
greatness of the scheme and list him as a member.
Take one more case of the younger son with high thoughts, high
aspirations, endowed by nature with all the faculties to make a great
man, and with the sole wish in his life to serve his Country but he
lacks two things the means and the opportunity, ever troubled by a
sort of inward deity urging him on to high and noble deeds, he is
compelled to pass his time in some occupation which furnishes him with
mere existence, he lives unhappily and dies miserably. Such men as
these the Society should search out and use for the furtherance of
their object.
(In every Colonial legislature the Society should attempt to have its
members prepared at all times to vote or speak and advocate the closer
union of England and the colonies, to crush all disloyalty and every
movement for the severance of our Empire. The Society should inspire
and even own portions of the press for the press rules the mind of the
people. The Society should always be searching for members who might
by their position in the world by their energies or character forward
the object but the ballot and test for admittance should be severe).
Once make it common and it fails. Take a man of great wealth who is
bereft of his children perhaps having his mind soured by some bitter
disappointment who shuts himself up separate from his neighbours and
makes up his mind to a miserable existence. To such men as these the
society should go gradually disclose the greatness of their scheme and
entreat him to throw in his life and property with them for this
object. I think that there are thousands now existing who would
eagerly grasp at the opportunity. Such are the heads of my scheme.
For fear that death might cut me off before the time for attempting
its development I leave all my worldly goods in trust to S. G.
Shippard and the Secretary for the Colonies at the time of my death to
try to form such a Society with such an object.
http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/how-the-english-saw-themselves-at-the-height-of-empire-cecil-rhodes-will/
saracene
Feb 12, 2013, 12:20:30 PM2/12/13
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saracene
Feb 12, 2013, 12:21:46 PM2/12/13
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On Feb 12, 4:54 pm, RH <anywhere...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> How the English saw themselves at the height of Empire – Cecil Rhodes’
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Claire
Feb 12, 2013, 5:35:57 PM2/12/13
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<shudder>
> read more »
Errrm.....no.
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Errrm.....no.
Tommy Atkins
Feb 12, 2013, 5:50:35 PM2/12/13
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On 12 Feb, 08:54, RH <anywhere...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> How the English saw themselves at the height of Empire – Cecil Rhodes’
No, the Empire was not at "its height"; it was already ending in
> How the English saw themselves at the height of Empire – Cecil Rhodes’
Rhodes's day. By 1900, the so-called British Empire was falling beind
Germany and the USA. The very shrewd Malcolm Muggeridge, reflecting
on his years in India, perceived that "imperialism" becomes widely
touted as an expressed concept only when an actual empire is failing,
in the same way that it is sick men who are obsessed with health, and
the impotent with sex.
All Rhodes ever did was act as a Rothschild agent on borrowed money.
Sorry, bou have to do more than speculate in diamonds (with a safe
monopoly) to be called an 'empire builder'.
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