Boer

Let it be remembered that the Boers of a century ago bitterly resented the English Government's abolition of slavery, ...

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The Boer has a penchant for building his home on a slight prominence, or against the rise of a low, flat hill which offers him a vista of the surrounding terrain, and from where he, equipped with a long telescope, can survey his surroundings for hours, the places his sheep or cattle are grazing, without him having to leave his home.

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What is the true and original root of Dutch [i.e. Boer] aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man … the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.

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To understand the Boer you must understand his theology, which rules his life and guides his actions, and you may as well fight him at once as seek to argue with his prejudices.

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Not only does a crude theology colour the life and guide the political existence of the Boers, but it absolutely threatens to prove the source of their disintegration. From the earliest days of their history church disputes have been readily fomented and violently contested. … It is no exaggeration to say that over this dispute the Boers were in measurable distance of civil war.

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...the average Boer is, according to his lights, a citizen pioneer, and a rough, God-fearing, honest, homely, uneducated philistine.

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The Boers rarely failed [in combat] when commanded by a resolute leader who knew his own mind and was able to impose his own will upon them. In isolated enterprises daringly conducted, they were usually efficient, and sometimes irresistible, but like most primitive communities in which the military instinct is individual rather than collective, they were incapable of forming themselves into a coherent and unified Army for action in mass.

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Noble and of good race for the most, they live on their farm like in the castles of old, free and isolated… These people are standing up in the face of the whole world defying the decline of our too advanced civilizations.

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