prosecuted; we remember how
summarily it was dropped; we remember also what reparation has
been done within the last few days to the distinguished man who
was the immediate object of that controversy. But does anybody who
hears me believe that that controversy, so prosecuted and so
abandoned, was beneficial to the Christian religion?(9)

Chapter III. Majuba. (1880-1881)

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--AEsch. _Prom._ 1078.

In a boundless coil of mischief pure senselessness will entangle
you.

I

It would almost need the pen of Tacitus or Dante to tell the story of
European power in South Africa. For forty years, said Mr. Gladstone in
1881, "I have always regarded the South African question as the one great
unsolved and perhaps insoluble problem of our colonial system." Among the
other legacies of the forward policy that the constituencies had
decisively condemned in 1880, this insoluble problem rapidly became acute
and formidable.

One of the great heads of impeachment in Midlothian had been a war
undertaken in 1878-9 against a fierce tribe on the borders of the colony