The conception of the Cape to Cairo Railway was one of those projects for which his country will ever remain grateful.
Yes! Rhodes was a great Englishman in spite of his faults, and perhaps on account of his faults.

Beside the genius of a Darwin or of a Pasteur, the talent of a Shakespeare or of a Milton, the science of a Newton or of a Lister, his figure seems a small one indeed, and it is absurd to raise him to the same level as these truly wonderful men.

The fact that the activity of Cecil Rhodes lay in quite a different direction does not, however, diminish the real importance of the work which he did, nor of the services which he rendered to his country.

The mistake is to judge him as a universal genius.

His genius had a particular bent; it was always directed toward one point and one only, that of material advantages to be acquired for the nation to which he belonged and of which he was so proud to be the son.