Instead, Jameson’s bungled military action helped to create the climate that would lead to the Second Boer War a few years later. Jameson intended to rouse the British expatriates living in the Transvaal to rise up against the Boer government, but his fellow Brits showed no inclination to revolt. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,Īnd-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son!Īccording to Kipling in his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937), the origins of ‘If-’ lie in the failed Jameson raid of 1895-6, when the British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson led a raid against the South African (Boer) Republic over the New Year weekend. With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, If all men count with you, but none too much If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
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