We have in our own time seen Great Britain inflamed by two frenzies--against France, and against the Boer Republics.

In the history of public opinion there are no two chapters more discreditable.

In the days of Fashoda the Frenchman was a degenerate _tigre-singe,_ the sworn enemy of religion and soap.

He had contributed nothing to civilisation except a loathsome science of sensuality, and the taint of decay was in his bones.

In the days of Spion Kop the Boer was an unlaundered savage, fit only to be a target for pig-stickers.