I am impressed by the fact that they are an unexpecting people.

Their calm non-expectancy fills me with interest.
Only centuries of waiting for their superiors in rank to do things for them, and the slow formation of the habit of realising that not to submit to disappointment was no use, could have produced the almost SERENITY of their attitude.

It is all very well for newborn republican nations--meaning my native land--to sniff sternly and say that such a state of affairs is an insult to the spirit of the race.

Perhaps it is now, but it was not apparently centuries ago, which was when it all began and when 'Man' and the 'Race' had not developed to the point of asking questions, to which they demand replies, about themselves and the things which happened to them.

It began in the time of Egbert and Canute, and earlier, in the days of the Druids, when they used peacefully to allow themselves to be burned by the score, enclosed in wicker idols, as natural offerings to placate the gods.