Letters Of Travel (1892-1913) By Rudyard Kipling











































































































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will forget how warily their fathers had to walk in the Mahdi's time to
secure even - Page 71
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In Due Time, They Will Forget How Warily Their Fathers Had To Walk In The Mahdi's Time To Secure Even Half A Bellyful; Then, As Has Happened Elsewhere.

They will honestly believe that they themselves originally created and since then have upheld the easy life into which they were bought at so heavy a price.

Then the demand will go up for 'extension of local government,' 'Soudan for the Soudanese,' and so on till the whole cycle has to be retrodden. It is a hard law but an old one - Rome died learning it, as our western civilisation may die - that if you give any man anything that he has not painfully earned for himself, you infallibly make him or his descendants your devoted enemies.

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