The
autobiography
of the late Sir Andries Stockenstrom,
Bart.
Bart.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14
Zambesia, England's El Dorado in Africa, being a description of
Matabeleland. . . and an account of the gold fields of British South Africa. 1891.
Matthews, J. W. Incwadi Yami, or twenty years' personal experience in South Africa.
New York, 1887.
Maugham, R. O. F. Portuguese East Africa. The History, Scenery, and Great Game
of Manica and Sofala. 1906; Zambezia : a general description of the valley of the
Zambezi River, etc. 1910.
:
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9
Michell, Hon. Sir Lewis. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, 1853–1902.
2 vols. 1910.
Mitford, Bertram. Through the Zulu Country. Its battlefields and its people.
1883.
A large number of works of fiction bearing on South African history and life,
ranging from 1891 to 1905. For a full list, see Mendelssohn, vol. 11, pp. 23–7.
Moffat, Robert. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa. 1842.
Molteno, P. A. A Federal South Africa. 1896; The Life and Times of Sir John
Charles Molteno, First Premier of Cape Colony. 2 vols. 1900.
Moodie, Donald. The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the condition and
treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa. Cape Town, 1838–1841 ; South
African Annals, 1652–1795. Chaps. I and 11. Pietermaritzburg, 1855.
Moodie, Duncan C. F. The History of the Battles and Adventures of the British, the
Boers, and the Zulus, etc. , in Southern Africa, from the time of Pharaoh Necho
to 1880. 2 vols. Cape Town, 1888.
Nathan, Manfred. The South African Commonwealth. Johannesburg and Cape Town,
1919.
Nixon, John. The Complete Story of the Transvaal, from the “Great Trek' to the
Convention of London. 1885.
Noble, John. South Africa, Past and Present: a short history of the European
settlements at the Cape. 1877.
Page, Gertrude. Love in the Wilderness, The Edge o' Beyond and many other works.
Pettman, Rev. Charles. Africanderisms. A Glossary of South African Colloquial
Words and Phrases. . . . 1913.
Philip, Rev. John. Researches in South Africa: illustrating the civil, moral, and
religious condition of the native tribes. . . . 2 vols. 1828.
Phillips, Lionel. Transvaal Problems: some notes on current politics. 1905.
Phillips, Mrs Lionel. Some South African Recollections. 1899.
Praagh, L. V. The Transvaal and its Mines. 1907.
Pringle, Thomas. Some account of the present state of the English settlers in Albany,
South Africa. 1824; Narrative of a Residence in South Africa. With a biographical
sketch of the author, by Josiah Conder. 1835.
Reitz, F. W. A Century of Wrong. 1900.
Reunert, Theodore. Diamonds and Gold in South Africa. 1893.
Ritchie, William. The History of the South African College, 1829–1918. 2 vols.
Cape Town, 1918.
Roberts, C. T. The Future of Gold Mining in Mashonaland. Salisbury (Rhodesia),
1898.
Robinson, Sir John. George Linton; or, The First Years of an English Colony. 1876;
A Life Time in South Africa. Being the recollections of the first Premier of
Natal. 1900.
Rogers, A. W. An Introduction to the Geology of Cape Colony. 1905.
Rose, F. Horace. Haidee. 1917; and several earlier works.
Russell, George. The History of Old Durban, and Reminiscences of an Emigrant
of 1850. 1899.
Russell, Robert. "The Garden Colony. ' The Story of Natal and its Neighbours. 1903.
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. A Novel. By Ralph Iron.
1883;
Dream Life and Real Life. . . . Ralph Iron. 1893; Dreams. Sixth edn.
1894;
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. . . . 1897.
Solater, W. L. The Fauna of South Africa. Edited by W. L. Sclater. The Mammals
of S. Africa. By W. L. Sclater. 2 vols. 1900-1.
Scoble, John, and Abercrombie, H. R. The Rise and Fall of Kragerism. 1900.
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IO
Scully, William Charles. Kafir Stories. 1895; The White Hecatomb, and other
stories. 1897; A Vendetta of the Desert. 1898; Between Sun and Sand: a tale
of an African Desert. 1898; By Veldt and Kopje. 1907; The Ridge of the White
Waters. 1912; Reminiscences of a S. African Pioneer. 1913; Lodges in the
Wilderness. 1915; A History of South Africa, from the Earliest Days to the
Union. 1915.
Silburn, P. A. The Colonies and Imperial Defence. 1909.
South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Annual Reports. Cape
Town, 1903–.
Statham, E. Reginald. Blacks, Boers, and British. A three-cornered problem. 1881;
Mr Magnus. 1896 ; Paul Kruger and his Times. 1896; South Africa as it is. . . . 1897.
Stewart, James. Lovedale, South Africa. Edinburgh and Glasgow. 1894; Dawn in
the Dark Continent. 1906.
Stockenstrom, Sir Andries.
The autobiography of the late Sir Andries Stockenstrom,
Bart. . . . Edited by. . . Hon. C. W. Hutton. 2 vols. Cape Town, 1887.
Stow, George W. The Native Races of South Africa. Edited by G. McCall Theal. 1905.
The Life and Work of George William Stow. . . by Robert B. Young. 1908.
Stuart, James. A History of the Zulu Rebellion, 1906. 1913.
Sykes, Frank W. With Plumer in Matabeleland. An account of the operations. . . during
the Rebellion of 1896. 1897.
Theal, George McCall. History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi,
from. . . 1505 to. . . 1795. . . . 3 vols. 1910; History of South Africa, from 1795 to 1872.
4th edn. In five vols. 1915.
The above represent Dr Theal's two most ambitious and best-known works, which
also incorporate or supersede, to some extent, earlier monographs on subjects included
in their scope. The following is a selection from his other voluminous writings:
Chronicles of Cape Commanders. . . from 1651 to 1691. . . . Cape Town, 1882 ;
Kaffir Folk-Lore. 2nd edn. 1886; History of the Boers in S. Africa. 1887; The
Portuguese in S. Africa. 1896; Records of the Cape Colony, 1793-1831. 36 vols.
Cape Town, 1897–1905; Records of South-Eastern Africa. 9 vols, 1898–1903 ;
South Africa. (The Story of the Nations. ) 4th edn. 1899; Progress of South Africa
in the Nineteenth Century. (The Nineteenth Century Series. ) 1902; The Beginning
of South African History. Cape Town, 1902; The Yellow and Dark-Skinned
People of Africa, south of the Zambesi. . . . 1910; Willem Adriaan van der Stel, and
other historical sketches. 1913.
Thomas, C. H. Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed. 1900.
Trotter, Mrs A. F. Old Cape Colony. A chronicle of her men and houses, from 1652
to 1806. 1903.
Truscott, S. J. The Witwatersrand Goldfields. 2nd edn. 1902.
Tyler, Josiah. Forty Years among the Zulus. Boston and Chicago, n. d. [1891).
Viljoen, General Ben J. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War. 1903.
Voigt, J. C. Fifty Years of the History of the Republic in South Africa (1795-1845).
2 vols. 1899.
Wagner, P. A. The Diamond Fields of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, 1914.
Walton, Sir Edgar H. The Inner History of the National Convention of South Africa.
Cape Town, 1912.
Watermeyer, E. B. Three Lectures on the Cape of Good Hope, under the Government
of the Dutch East India Company. Cape Town, 1857 ; Selections from the Writings
of. . . E. B. Watermeyer, with a brief sketch of his life. Cape Town, 1877.
Wessels, J. W. History of the Roman-Dutch Law. Grahamstown, 1908.
Williams, Gardner F. The Diamond Mines of South Africa. Some account of their
Rise and Development. Revised edn. New York, 1905.
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Wilmot, Alexander. History of the Zulu War. 1880; The Story of the Expansion of
Southern Africa. London and Cape Town, 1895 ; Monomotapa (Rhodesia). Its
monuments and its history from the most ancient times to the present century.
1896; The History of Our Own Times in South Africa (1872–1898). 3 vols.
London and Cape Town, 1897-9; The History of South Africa. . . . Intended as a
concise manual. . . for general use, etc. 1901; The Life and Times of Sir Richard
Southey. 1904.
Wilmot, Alexander, and Chase, John Centlivres. History of the Colony of the Cape of
Good Hope. From its discovery. . . to 1868. Cape Town, 1869.
Wilson, David Mackay. Behind the Scenes in the Transvaal. 1901.
Wirgman, A. T. The History of the English Church and People in South Africa. 1895.
pp. 590 ff. , chapter xiv. Education,
Adamson, J. W. A Short History of Education. Cambridge, 1919.
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CHAPTER I
PHILOSOPHERS
1. INTRODUCTION
ENGLISH philosophy may be said to have touched low-water
mark in or about the fourth decade of the nineteenth century.
The general public had ceased to be occupied with matters of
speculative thought, and the universities did little or nothing to
keep an interest in them alive. Writing in 1835, John Stuart
Mill complained that philosophy was falling more and more into
disrepute and that great events had ceased to inspire great ideas.
'In the intellectual pursuits which form great minds,' he said, “this country
was formerly pre-eminent. England once stood at the head of European
philosophy. Where stands she now? . . . Out of the narrow bounds of mathe-
matical and physical science, not a vestige of a reading and thinking public
engaged in the investigation of truth as truth, in the prosecution of thought
for the sake of thought. Among few except sectarian religionists-and what
they are we all know-is there any interest in the great problem of man's
nature and life: among still fewer is there any curiosity respecting the nature
and principles of human society, the history or the philosophy of civilization;
nor any belief that, from such inquiries, a single important practical con-
sequence can followi. "
About the same time, or a few years earlier, similar views con-
cerning the low estate of English philosophy had been expressed
by Sir William Hamilton and by Thomas Carlyle? ; and a foreign
observer-Hegel-bad spoken with scorn of the usage of the word
'philosophy’ in the English language.
The writers who made this complaint were foremost in
bringing about a change. Without any approach to philo-
sophical method, Carlyle forced upon public attention ideas
concerning the ultimate meaning and value of life, and, in his
own way, had an influence upon the thought of his time which
may be compared with that of Coleridge in the generation
1 Dissertations and Discussions, vol. 1, pp. 96, 97.
? Cf. Masson, Recent British Philosophy, 3rd edn, pp. 2–5.
E. L. XIV.
CH. I.
Matabeleland. . . and an account of the gold fields of British South Africa. 1891.
Matthews, J. W. Incwadi Yami, or twenty years' personal experience in South Africa.
New York, 1887.
Maugham, R. O. F. Portuguese East Africa. The History, Scenery, and Great Game
of Manica and Sofala. 1906; Zambezia : a general description of the valley of the
Zambezi River, etc. 1910.
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9
Michell, Hon. Sir Lewis. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, 1853–1902.
2 vols. 1910.
Mitford, Bertram. Through the Zulu Country. Its battlefields and its people.
1883.
A large number of works of fiction bearing on South African history and life,
ranging from 1891 to 1905. For a full list, see Mendelssohn, vol. 11, pp. 23–7.
Moffat, Robert. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa. 1842.
Molteno, P. A. A Federal South Africa. 1896; The Life and Times of Sir John
Charles Molteno, First Premier of Cape Colony. 2 vols. 1900.
Moodie, Donald. The Record, or a series of official papers relating to the condition and
treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa. Cape Town, 1838–1841 ; South
African Annals, 1652–1795. Chaps. I and 11. Pietermaritzburg, 1855.
Moodie, Duncan C. F. The History of the Battles and Adventures of the British, the
Boers, and the Zulus, etc. , in Southern Africa, from the time of Pharaoh Necho
to 1880. 2 vols. Cape Town, 1888.
Nathan, Manfred. The South African Commonwealth. Johannesburg and Cape Town,
1919.
Nixon, John. The Complete Story of the Transvaal, from the “Great Trek' to the
Convention of London. 1885.
Noble, John. South Africa, Past and Present: a short history of the European
settlements at the Cape. 1877.
Page, Gertrude. Love in the Wilderness, The Edge o' Beyond and many other works.
Pettman, Rev. Charles. Africanderisms. A Glossary of South African Colloquial
Words and Phrases. . . . 1913.
Philip, Rev. John. Researches in South Africa: illustrating the civil, moral, and
religious condition of the native tribes. . . . 2 vols. 1828.
Phillips, Lionel. Transvaal Problems: some notes on current politics. 1905.
Phillips, Mrs Lionel. Some South African Recollections. 1899.
Praagh, L. V. The Transvaal and its Mines. 1907.
Pringle, Thomas. Some account of the present state of the English settlers in Albany,
South Africa. 1824; Narrative of a Residence in South Africa. With a biographical
sketch of the author, by Josiah Conder. 1835.
Reitz, F. W. A Century of Wrong. 1900.
Reunert, Theodore. Diamonds and Gold in South Africa. 1893.
Ritchie, William. The History of the South African College, 1829–1918. 2 vols.
Cape Town, 1918.
Roberts, C. T. The Future of Gold Mining in Mashonaland. Salisbury (Rhodesia),
1898.
Robinson, Sir John. George Linton; or, The First Years of an English Colony. 1876;
A Life Time in South Africa. Being the recollections of the first Premier of
Natal. 1900.
Rogers, A. W. An Introduction to the Geology of Cape Colony. 1905.
Rose, F. Horace. Haidee. 1917; and several earlier works.
Russell, George. The History of Old Durban, and Reminiscences of an Emigrant
of 1850. 1899.
Russell, Robert. "The Garden Colony. ' The Story of Natal and its Neighbours. 1903.
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. A Novel. By Ralph Iron.
1883;
Dream Life and Real Life. . . . Ralph Iron. 1893; Dreams. Sixth edn.
1894;
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. . . . 1897.
Solater, W. L. The Fauna of South Africa. Edited by W. L. Sclater. The Mammals
of S. Africa. By W. L. Sclater. 2 vols. 1900-1.
Scoble, John, and Abercrombie, H. R. The Rise and Fall of Kragerism. 1900.
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IO
Scully, William Charles. Kafir Stories. 1895; The White Hecatomb, and other
stories. 1897; A Vendetta of the Desert. 1898; Between Sun and Sand: a tale
of an African Desert. 1898; By Veldt and Kopje. 1907; The Ridge of the White
Waters. 1912; Reminiscences of a S. African Pioneer. 1913; Lodges in the
Wilderness. 1915; A History of South Africa, from the Earliest Days to the
Union. 1915.
Silburn, P. A. The Colonies and Imperial Defence. 1909.
South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Annual Reports. Cape
Town, 1903–.
Statham, E. Reginald. Blacks, Boers, and British. A three-cornered problem. 1881;
Mr Magnus. 1896 ; Paul Kruger and his Times. 1896; South Africa as it is. . . . 1897.
Stewart, James. Lovedale, South Africa. Edinburgh and Glasgow. 1894; Dawn in
the Dark Continent. 1906.
Stockenstrom, Sir Andries.
The autobiography of the late Sir Andries Stockenstrom,
Bart. . . . Edited by. . . Hon. C. W. Hutton. 2 vols. Cape Town, 1887.
Stow, George W. The Native Races of South Africa. Edited by G. McCall Theal. 1905.
The Life and Work of George William Stow. . . by Robert B. Young. 1908.
Stuart, James. A History of the Zulu Rebellion, 1906. 1913.
Sykes, Frank W. With Plumer in Matabeleland. An account of the operations. . . during
the Rebellion of 1896. 1897.
Theal, George McCall. History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi,
from. . . 1505 to. . . 1795. . . . 3 vols. 1910; History of South Africa, from 1795 to 1872.
4th edn. In five vols. 1915.
The above represent Dr Theal's two most ambitious and best-known works, which
also incorporate or supersede, to some extent, earlier monographs on subjects included
in their scope. The following is a selection from his other voluminous writings:
Chronicles of Cape Commanders. . . from 1651 to 1691. . . . Cape Town, 1882 ;
Kaffir Folk-Lore. 2nd edn. 1886; History of the Boers in S. Africa. 1887; The
Portuguese in S. Africa. 1896; Records of the Cape Colony, 1793-1831. 36 vols.
Cape Town, 1897–1905; Records of South-Eastern Africa. 9 vols, 1898–1903 ;
South Africa. (The Story of the Nations. ) 4th edn. 1899; Progress of South Africa
in the Nineteenth Century. (The Nineteenth Century Series. ) 1902; The Beginning
of South African History. Cape Town, 1902; The Yellow and Dark-Skinned
People of Africa, south of the Zambesi. . . . 1910; Willem Adriaan van der Stel, and
other historical sketches. 1913.
Thomas, C. H. Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed. 1900.
Trotter, Mrs A. F. Old Cape Colony. A chronicle of her men and houses, from 1652
to 1806. 1903.
Truscott, S. J. The Witwatersrand Goldfields. 2nd edn. 1902.
Tyler, Josiah. Forty Years among the Zulus. Boston and Chicago, n. d. [1891).
Viljoen, General Ben J. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War. 1903.
Voigt, J. C. Fifty Years of the History of the Republic in South Africa (1795-1845).
2 vols. 1899.
Wagner, P. A. The Diamond Fields of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, 1914.
Walton, Sir Edgar H. The Inner History of the National Convention of South Africa.
Cape Town, 1912.
Watermeyer, E. B. Three Lectures on the Cape of Good Hope, under the Government
of the Dutch East India Company. Cape Town, 1857 ; Selections from the Writings
of. . . E. B. Watermeyer, with a brief sketch of his life. Cape Town, 1877.
Wessels, J. W. History of the Roman-Dutch Law. Grahamstown, 1908.
Williams, Gardner F. The Diamond Mines of South Africa. Some account of their
Rise and Development. Revised edn. New York, 1905.
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II
Wilmot, Alexander. History of the Zulu War. 1880; The Story of the Expansion of
Southern Africa. London and Cape Town, 1895 ; Monomotapa (Rhodesia). Its
monuments and its history from the most ancient times to the present century.
1896; The History of Our Own Times in South Africa (1872–1898). 3 vols.
London and Cape Town, 1897-9; The History of South Africa. . . . Intended as a
concise manual. . . for general use, etc. 1901; The Life and Times of Sir Richard
Southey. 1904.
Wilmot, Alexander, and Chase, John Centlivres. History of the Colony of the Cape of
Good Hope. From its discovery. . . to 1868. Cape Town, 1869.
Wilson, David Mackay. Behind the Scenes in the Transvaal. 1901.
Wirgman, A. T. The History of the English Church and People in South Africa. 1895.
pp. 590 ff. , chapter xiv. Education,
Adamson, J. W. A Short History of Education. Cambridge, 1919.
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CHAPTER I
PHILOSOPHERS
1. INTRODUCTION
ENGLISH philosophy may be said to have touched low-water
mark in or about the fourth decade of the nineteenth century.
The general public had ceased to be occupied with matters of
speculative thought, and the universities did little or nothing to
keep an interest in them alive. Writing in 1835, John Stuart
Mill complained that philosophy was falling more and more into
disrepute and that great events had ceased to inspire great ideas.
'In the intellectual pursuits which form great minds,' he said, “this country
was formerly pre-eminent. England once stood at the head of European
philosophy. Where stands she now? . . . Out of the narrow bounds of mathe-
matical and physical science, not a vestige of a reading and thinking public
engaged in the investigation of truth as truth, in the prosecution of thought
for the sake of thought. Among few except sectarian religionists-and what
they are we all know-is there any interest in the great problem of man's
nature and life: among still fewer is there any curiosity respecting the nature
and principles of human society, the history or the philosophy of civilization;
nor any belief that, from such inquiries, a single important practical con-
sequence can followi. "
About the same time, or a few years earlier, similar views con-
cerning the low estate of English philosophy had been expressed
by Sir William Hamilton and by Thomas Carlyle? ; and a foreign
observer-Hegel-bad spoken with scorn of the usage of the word
'philosophy’ in the English language.
The writers who made this complaint were foremost in
bringing about a change. Without any approach to philo-
sophical method, Carlyle forced upon public attention ideas
concerning the ultimate meaning and value of life, and, in his
own way, had an influence upon the thought of his time which
may be compared with that of Coleridge in the generation
1 Dissertations and Discussions, vol. 1, pp. 96, 97.
? Cf. Masson, Recent British Philosophy, 3rd edn, pp. 2–5.
E. L. XIV.
CH. I.
