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The views or opinions of great men on the 

 matter of religion are interesting, and, according 

 to Mr Gordon Le Suer, Rhodes did not care about 

 discussing it. Yet on one occasion he said : " Let 

 a man be a Buddhist, a Mohammedan, a Christian, 

 or what you will. Let him call himself what he 

 likes, but if he does not believe in a Supreme Being 

 he is no man ; he is no better than a dog." 



Napoleon is said to have had no belief in a future 

 life, but gave it as his opinion that some sort of 

 religion was a necessity to humanity. Great army 

 captains do not as a rule bring into their dispatches 

 the name of the Almighty ; yet Lee, the Southern 

 commander in the American Civil War, did so. 

 He began his dispatches with fervent thanks for 

 victories already achieved and supplications to the 

 Deity for further assistance, very different from the 

 blunt trenchant dispatches of his opponent Ulysses 

 Grant, by which it would seem that Napoleon's 

 dictum proved correct — viz. that Providence is on 

 the side of the biggest and best-led battalions. 



Dr Jameson was at Tuli, and my first meeting 

 with him was for medical advice. Just previous 

 to leaving Fort Gaberones, where I met General 

 Carrington, to accompany him in the capacity of 

 Staff- Officer, I had been thrown sky-high from a 

 newly arrived remount, and pitching on my head 

 received a knock that resulted in severe concussion 



