But the fagots which proved to be so inflammable, they were not of our setting.

They were the wrongs done to half the community, the settled resolution of the minority to tax and vex the majority, the determination of a people who had lived two generations in a country to claim that country entirely for themselves.

Behind them all there may have been the Dutch ambition to dominate South Africa.

It was no petty object for which Britain fought.

When a nation struggles uncomplainingly through months of disaster she may claim to have proved her conviction of the justice and necessity of the struggle.