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and extend the influence of the Englishspeaking race.' " (p. 98.) Whether one accepts these broad notions concerning the destiny of the Englishspeaking race, hinging as they do on hasty and inconclusive judgments of that most complex of questions, the relative value of the divisions of the human family; or, in deed, granting for the moment that the premises laid down. adequately support these vast conclusions, whether one fee's their allurement, or instead is incensed by them: all this does not here concern us. Imper ialism here appears before us stripped of industrial politics and clad in the robes of justice and liberty and peace for all man kind. Whether or not our hearts go out to the vision, is beside our point. If we would understand what he was trying to do, we must remember that to this dream of the future Mr. Rhodes dedicated himself. It became nothing less than his religion. To such a conclusion the "due weighing and agreeing to the plan'' brought him. The second and third essentials, namely "the first organization and the seizure of the necessary wealth," except so far as the latter touches the distribution of his own property, may be briefly stated. For some years he seems to have con sidered the formation of the secret society. It was to be to the future what the Society of Jesus under Loyola's leadership was to the Papacy, or what Caesar's legions were to the Roman Empire. To the moral force of the one should be added the material strength of the other. The difficulties in volved in such a scheme of organization were, of course, enormous. Upon its mem bers it would lay the obligation of a clearly stated purpose with the minimum oppor tunity of doing anything toward its fulfill ment. Some hints of these difficulties ap pear in quotations from Mr. Rhodes which Mr. Stead gives us. And it would seem fair

to infer that nothing came of this far-reach ing scheme.1 It remains only to deal with the last essential, "the seizure of the necessary wealth," and to show how Mr. Rhodes so far as his own means permitted sought to make his dream come true. In his will, as published,2 he first provides for a trust fund, from which the "Trustees shall in such manner as in their uncon trolled discretion they shall think fit culti vate (certain estates) for the instruction of the people of Rhodesia." He gives a park at Bulawyo, and also directs that a rail road be built thence to Westacre "so that the people may enjoy the glory of the Matoppos3 from Saturday to Monday." To the same locality he gives an agricultural college. He provides that Groóte Schuur, his beautiful homestead, shall become the residence of the Federal premier. He gives outright to Oriel, his own college at Ox ford, half a million dollars; to be spent for college buildings, the maintenance of Resi dent Fellows, for the High Table, and for a Repair Fund.4 He then proceeds to establish the Schol arships. "Whereas, I do consider that the education of young colonists at one of the Universities in the United Kingdom is of great advantage to them for giving breadth to their views for their instruction in life and manners and for instilling into their minds the advantage to the Colonies as well 'Whether or not this inference is correct is hardly to be gathered from Mr. Stead's pages; and so far as Known by the writer of this article, no other authority is accessible. 'At this writing the will in full has not been made public. 'A range of gigantic barren rocks or moun tains, where, at his suggestion, his body was bur ied. "'As the college authorities live secluded from the world." he adds, "and so are like children as to commercial matters, I would advise them to consult my trustees as to the investment of these various funds. They would receive great assist ance from my trustees in such matters." Per haps Mr. Rhodes did not over-estimate the value of academic judgment.