This the Englishmen in Johannesburg and foreigners of all nations
could not possibly feel. They were not more bound to die to obtain
control of the gold mines of Johannesburg for a man already wealthy
or his confederates, than to assist South Africans in defending them;
or than we who visit the south of France or Italy for health should
feel ourselves bound to remain and die if war breaks out between the
Bonapartists and the Republicans, or the Pope and the King. If by a
process of abstract thought we have arrived at a strong conviction of a
right or human justice to be maintained by a cause with which we have
no practical concern, we may feel morally compelled to take a part
in it; but no man can throw it in our teeth if we refuse to die in a
strange land for