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and business men through all the ages, without feel- 

 ing sentiment. Job felt it in the beginning of the 

 world, when writing that ' he smelleth the battle afar 

 off.' Major-General Tweedie felt it in these latter 

 days, when he wrote that if we lose him ' we shall 

 never look upon his like again,' 



I the more readily submit my views as they stand 

 because no elegance or brilliance of style, even if I 

 had them, would operate on the minds of those who 

 have been educated in, and indoctrinated from their 

 youth up with, the belief of the racing men. Nothing 

 will operate on such minds but repeated and un- 

 questionable authority — repetition as illustrated by 

 the Times — even if that do. 'If they hear not Moses 

 and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, 

 though one rose from the dead.' If they hear not 

 General Tweedie, Field-Marshal Roberts, General 

 Harry Smith, the Ameer Abdul Rahman, the 

 German Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, General 

 Daumas, and Abd-el-Kader, with the scores of other 

 experienced men quoted, no rhetoric of mine would 

 amount to much. 



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