Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boers were left with no choice but war or surrender. If their country had been less valuable and had been less in the way of dominion from Cape to Cairo, we should have heard less about their ignorance and conservatism. The story is as old as Naboth's vineyard. The contest is at bottom one for empire on the one side for independence on the other. The disproportion of resources between the two contestants reminds one of the Persians and Greeks. Our own ancestors had infinitely smaller odds to face when they rose in revolt. The doctrine that we should...