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Rhodes, Cecil John—continued. Religious ideas of: ideal of Secular Church for extension of British Empire, 59; a political Society of Jesus, 63; Agnostic, 84; on the Bible, 84; on broadening influence of travel and Nature, 86; on church-going, 86; on churches, 88; a Darwinian, 88; on life and death, 88; is there a God? 88; what does He want me to do? 89; testimony of the Booths, 89–93; Divine area of action, 94; Divine method, 94; Divine instrument, 95; Divine ideal, 96; his threefold test, 97; his conclusion, 98; his policy as to education, 94; his idea in essence, 98; fond of theological discussion, 184; and Marcus Aurelius, 184; “This one thing I do,” 184; his colloquy with the Infinite, 188–9; not an atheist, 189; on the future life, 189

Sayings of: on Matoppos, “Homes—that is what I work for,” 5; on university education, 23; on “smug,” “brutality,” and “unctuous rectitude,” 44; on loafers, 45; the essence of a proper life, 45; on country landlords, 46; “Do you ever feel mad?” etc. “I do, at pig-headed statesmen of George III.,” 59; “Leave the local pump to the parish beadle,” 74; “Don’t despise money,” 83; “Life—three days at the seaside,” 88; a fifty-per-cent. chance there is a God, 89; “I am trying to make new countries—you are trying to make new men,” 93; Justice, Liberty, Peace, the highest things, 97; “You cannot govern South Africa by trampling on the Dutch,” 113; Gladstonian Home Rule makes Ireland a taxed republic, 118; “My idea—Liberalism plus Empire,” 131; “No use to have big ideas without cash,” 142; “The whole of your politics lie in your trade,” 169; “Your trade is the world and your life is the world,” 170; East Africa based on the suppression of slave trade and cultiation of cocoanut, 172; “The best commercial asset in the world,” 174–5; “Always do the comparative.” 181; “So much to do, so little done,” 184; “I would annex the planets if I could,” 190

Speeches of: at laying foundation stone Presbyterian Chapel, 86; at Salvation Army inciting at Mansion House, 90-1; at prize-giving at Bulawayo school, 94; published by Chapman and Hall, 1900, 139; on United States of South Africa, 1883, 142; on the Flag question, 1890, 143, 173; on the Afrikander Bond, 1891, 144; on the Dutch, 145, 147; against race distinctions, 147; against Crown Colony, 148; on native legislation, 1888, 148; address to the shareholders of the Chartered Company, 1895, 149–175; on the British flag as a commercial asset, 173–5

Wills: first of Cecil J. Rhodes’s, 1877, 61; second, 1882, 62; third, 1888, 62; fourth, 1891, 64; fifth, 1893, 104; sixth and last, 1899, 3; why altered, 103–4

Will, last, and Testament of: domicile declared in Rhodesia, 3; burial place in the Matoppos (q.v.), why chosen, 3; inscription on tomb, 4; the Shangani monument, 4; conditions for future burials, 5; fund for beautifying burial place, 7; bequeaths Bulawayo and Inyanga estates for instruction of people, 5; forms Matoppos and Bulawayo fund for burial place, 7; provides for planting Sauerdale (q.v.) Park, 7; for completing Westacre (q.v.) dam, 7–9; for constructing railway to Westacre for week-enders, 9; founds Inyanga (q.v.) fund, 9; for irrigation, 11; for experimental farming, forestry, gardening, and Agricultural College, 11; leaves Groote Schuur (q.v.) as residence for Prime Minister of federated South Africa, 13; till then as park for people, 16; founds Groote Schuur fund, 17; bequeaths £100,000 to Oriel (q.v.) College, Oxford, 20; for new buildings, 21; for resident fellowships, 21; for the High Table, 22; directions to trustees, 23; founds scholarships at Oxford, 23; suggests extension of medical school, 24; states his object as union of English-speaking race, 24; the sixty Colonial scholarships, 32; one hundred American scholarships, 33; fifteen German scholarships, 35; rules for selecting scholars, 36; apportionment of marks, 38; conditions of residence, 40; of payment, 43; of distribution, 43; of discipline, 44; annual dinner, 44; settles Dalham Hall estate on Col. F. Rhodes and Capt. Ernest Rhodes, 45; conditions in the codicil, 45; no incumbrances to be created, 45-6; ten years’ work, 47; service in Militia or Volunteers, 47; forfeiture of title, 47; leaves residue (q.v.) of estate to joint tenants who are also named executors and trustees, 49

Rhodesia, nine scholarships for, 32; called after C. J. Rhodes, 68; its extent north of the Zambesi, 150; Matabele and Mashonaland, 151; extent of, 152; material development of, 154, 157; cost of administering in 1895, 154-5; railway making to, 157; a white man’s country, 158; profits of, from minerals, 159; Hays Hammond, report on, 159

Rosebery, Earl of, joint heir of residue, 49, 108; quoted by C. J. Rhodes in favour of reduction of Irish Members, 121; saves Egypt by joining Gladstone’s Ministry, 132; saves Uganda and Egypt, 169

Rudd, C. E., portrait of, 119

Salvation Army, C. J. Rhodes on, 90–93

Sauerdale property to be planted as park, 7

Schnadhorst, F., Liberal Whip, correspondence with, 130–7; meets C. J. Rhodes in Africa, 131; asks for subscription to Liberal fund, 131; £5,000 given on conditions, 133; his defence, 136–7

Scholarships, first founded by C. J. Rhodes, for Rondebosch College, 29; in his last will, 60 were founded for Colonies, 30–1; 100 for United States, 34; 15 for Germany, 35; how to be selected, 36; allotment of marks, 38; discussion on, 38–44; annual dinner, 44–5, 52; first idea of, 105