The Dial, Vol. 49

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Excerpt from The Dial, Vol. 49: A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, July 1 to December 16, 1910Throughout Europe the British people were te garded as a nation of sanctimonious hypocrites. At that time a Briton travelling abroad found it desirable to hide his origin as far as he could, which was not always easy. With the solitary exception of Yves Guyot, no man in all France whose opinion was worth having had a word to say in our favour. One of my most bitter recollections is that in Geneva, that ancient fastness of freedom, I sat in the English Garden, on an Easter holi day, watching a grand procession of the trades, and was suddenly confronted with the collection-box in aid of the Boer women and children. I gave my contribution with tears of shame. For the men whose pride and obstinacy brought us to such humiliation there can be no forgive ness, for they trailed the fair fame of our own dear land in the dust before all Europe at the instigation of polyglot devotees of Mammon, who had degraded and debauched the Press alike in England and South Africa. The British nation which went trafficking in the crisis of the war fever has since learned by bitter experience that it cannot make war on the cheap, and to this day it is suffering from the consequences of its folly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.