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Let me conclude by a brief statement of the more salient falsehoods which underlie the argument of M. Demolins in its application to the South African war. In the first place, there was no antagonism or fundamental incompatibility of races, ideals, or systems between the British Colonies and Boer Republics. Dutch and British settlers were divided by the same lines of distinctively economic cleavage in the Republics as in the Colonies – the Dutch, the rural population, cultivating the soil; the British, dwellers in the towns, concerned with trade; the peaceful competition of social ideas, customs, languages, which was rapidly assimilating the two peoples in the Colonies, had already made a definite beginning in the Republics; the processes of silent assimilation were going on with satisfactory rapidity, until menaces and open violence interrupted them. The Dutch and British races have, as might be expected from their origin, fused easily and advantageously in England, in the United States, and, until lately, in Cape Colony; the social and other divergencies were not those of the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, but merely of the mushroom civilization of the new industrial town and the simpler, ruder conditions of cattle-farming in a land where