This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...thus fulfilling the wishes of those interested in her political welfare. But not otherwise. In inviting farmers to settle in South Africa, it is not unimportant to remember that the English farmer is, not the bucolic oaf of the caricaturists but, a highly civilized individual with all the abilities and tastes and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...thus fulfilling the wishes of those interested in her political welfare. But not otherwise. In inviting farmers to settle in South Africa, it is not unimportant to remember that the English farmer is, not the bucolic oaf of the caricaturists but, a highly civilized individual with all the abilities and tastes and habits of an English man. He, in fact, is likely to be less indifferent to the advantages of civilization in a strange land than in his Mother-country. The very incompleteness of South Africa will accentuate the memory of all the every-day amenities which he has left-behind in England. The education of his children, and the society of congenial neighbours, will become matters of extreme importance to him. The idea, that the yeoman of England can be dumped-down on the veld of South Africa like oxen, may as well be dismissed forthwith. Due weight must be given to the dual aspect of the English farmer. Nor is it to be forgotten that the Englishman and the Boer are very Suitable settlers. Characteristics of the English husbandman. different in their ideas and habits. The life of the back-country Boer would be intolerable to the average English farmer, who is accustomed to social intercourse and a considerably higher grade of civilization. Further, I warn those misguided persons, who indiscriminately advise every Tom, Dick, and Harry, to emigrate to South Africa, that (to be a successful farmer in any country) a man must have capital, as well as practical experience of farming. Men without experience are not going to succeed: neither is the purely theoretical capitalist with desire for farming going to succeed. Knowledge is power, no doubt: but only the knowledge which is obtained, by observation and practice, from that continuous system of Becoming whi...
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