Her constitutional institutions are universally imitated.

Nowhere else do we find the sense of self-respect more largely developed." Dr.Kuyper further admits that the "incompatibility" is relative as far as Afrikanders are concerned, it is only "absolute" as applied to the Boers.

After giving us this example of the consistency of his views, Dr.
Kuyper speaks of the English as being "unobservant." A reproach somewhat unexpected, when directed against the countrymen of Darwin.

As a proof, he presents us with this metaphor, equally unexpected from the pen of a Dutchman--a dweller of the plains:-- "Because, in winter, the English had only seen in these insignificant river beds a harmless thread of frozen water, they took no thought of the formidable torrent which the thawing of the snow, in spring, would send rushing down to inundate their banks." "The torrent" is of course the war now going on.

Lord Roberts seems to be successfully coping with the "inundation." 3 .-- _"The Crime."_ Dr.Kuyper approves of the "Petition of Rights" of 1881.