Excerpt from Vengeance as a Policy in Afrikanderland: A Plea for a New Departure Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Saving the Decalogue itself, it is difficult to imagine an injunction that any form of words could render more emphatic or precise, and still more difficult, perhaps, to conceive of any rule of conduct so hard for nations or for individuals to observe. Not in the whole world are there two nations professing more respect for divine authority than the Dutch of South Africa and the people of this ...
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Excerpt from Vengeance as a Policy in Afrikanderland: A Plea for a New Departure Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Saving the Decalogue itself, it is difficult to imagine an injunction that any form of words could render more emphatic or precise, and still more difficult, perhaps, to conceive of any rule of conduct so hard for nations or for individuals to observe. Not in the whole world are there two nations professing more respect for divine authority than the Dutch of South Africa and the people of this realm; but subject their relations during the past twenty years to anything like a critical analysis, and it will clearly appear that the prohibition which the apos tolic language conveys, a prohibition which dates back from the teaching of the earliest exponents of our faith, has been honoured more in the breach than in the observance thereof; and here, perhaps, may be found some clue to the mystery-why English and Dutch have not succeeded in getting on together - by which the minds of so many of our countrymen have been exercised since the present troubles in South Africa began. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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