wavering, man-brute guise." The only point of all which is that who made so merry, a few years a "The Truce of the Bear" had be another joke. One does not base the of Kipling on his merely having bee less ridiculous, in a given instance, contemporaries wanted to think him I wonder, too-still as I turn the The Five Nations-if there is not value today in the poem called "Suss God gave all men all earth to love, That, as He watched Creation's birth So one shall Baltic pines content, Or one the palm-grove's droned lamer Each to his choice, and I rejoice The lot has fallen to me In a fair ground-in a fair ground- [263] windy internationalism to which we are en invited, nowadays, to listen, would t-might even call it "chauvinisme de "The reply is that people actually do Kipling says they do. He has always to serve (in his own phrase) the God ngs as They Are. Granted, for the sake ument, that it would be good for you to Il men and all countries alike, the fact s that you do not. If that is your duty, ecent people do not perform their duty; athers did not, and their children will Even the most radical internationalists o substitute class-consciousness for patri-on the whole, a less enlightened chauthan the other. And, judging from the t war, they have not been able to pull hat off. for saying that one has the same sense sonal insult in seeing a foreign land d as in seeing one's own, that is nonFrance has been the home of the spirit ny of us; the thought of an invaded is of a bitterness hardly to be borne. [264] up to Oshkos would lier ins it mor so for public, of ho should must Devon about betwe cisely plans Texas to it. No great biolog it be the g the I "the 1 to which wer ). He has alwa as the same sens g a foreign la own, that is n some of the sp t of an invad rdly to be bor up to curse the enemy. But even a Oshkosh (and Oshkosh is a mere nan would be to me, an American, an e lier insult than an invaded Paris. I sh it more personally, I know. And if th so for us, in our far-flung, heteroge public, what must be the case with th of homogeneous France? If I kno should feel that way about Oshko must the Kentish man feel about Devonshire man about Devon, the E about England? Did not all sane A between Bangor and San Diego rea cisely similar fashion to Herr Zimm plans for Texas? I have never ever Texas, but Texas belongs to me and to it. No: say what you please, geograp great human science; it is more intir biology. And Kipling has had the ser it because he really knows somethi the genus homo. It was a delightful the Frenchman's that charmed our "the passion for the planet"; but are [265] or birth, two strong men stand face to face, though they me from the ends of the earth. is very taking; and in a sense it is true, - Heaven. But I fancy Kipling would to modify it now. At least he would like ite a foot-note containing a careful defiof the word "strong." It would not to the average German. pling was called, for many years, by the st-Liberals, a jingo. All imperialists were, ficio, jingoes. Some of these people have nto their heads, by this time, the concepof a "preparedness" that makes for and realize the difference between a ingo and a man who wants to avert war e only way possible when a considerable on of the world remains militaristic. We now by this time that, if England had prepared in 1914, there would have been ar in 1914; that, very probably, if Sir rd Grey had been empowered to say, at roper instant, that England would fight, would have been no war in 1914. Had [266] vague "The That jingo. An Natio Writ fancy ce to face, thoug in a sense it is Incy Kipling Wh least he would fining a careti ng." It would man. many years fr ll imperialists wants to avert ery probably, i "The Settler": Earth where we rode to slay or be sla And the pools where we lay in wait Till the corn cover our evil dreams And the young corn our hate. That is not the accent of the dyed-in jingo. And here again-still out of 1 Nations-the "Half-Ballad of Water Written at least fifteen years ago—ar fancy, the core of the matter. Certa [267] |