That
problem is incurably miscellaneous and intricate, and only by great
multitudes of generous workers, one working at this point and one at
that, secretly devoted knights of humanity, hidden and dispersed
kings, unaware of one another, doubting each his right to count
himself among those who do these kingly services, is this elaborate
rightening of work and guidance to be done."
So from these most fundamental social difficulties he came back to
his panacea. All paths and all enquiries led him back to his
conception of aristocracy, conscious, self-disciplined, devoted,
self-examining yet secret, making no personal nor class pretences,
as the supreme need not only of the individual but the world.
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It was the Labour trouble in the Transvaal which had brought the two
schoolfellows together again. White had been on his way to
Zimbabwe. An emotional disturbance of unusual intensity had driven
him to seek consolations in strange scenery and mysterious
desolations. It was as if Zimbabwe called to him. Benham had come
to South Africa to see into the question of Indian immigration, and
he was now on his way to meet Amanda in London.
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