> Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers -- still the largest diamond company
> in the world -- and, effectively, "conqueror" of half of Africa,
> remains an extraordinary illustration of both the best and the worst
> in the human character, and in the human condition. The son of a
> country cleric, he transferred his early religious faith into a
> passionate fervor for the expansion of the British Empire by whatever
> means were necessary, as a manifestation of social Darwinism for the
> improvement and perfection of the human species. And, in so doing, he
> created an entire sub-culture of "eager young men", passionately
> attached to him and his "vision" -- not of a better world, but of a
> more British world.
>
> Rhodes travelled to the diamond mines of South Africa as a teenager in
> the early 1870's, did well, used his money to take a degree at Oxford,
> returned to South Africa and used his charm and experience to take
> over the mineral markets of Africa. As his power and wealth
> increased, he obtained the legal right to use his companies to raise
> money for private armies, and to take huge tracts of African land from
> the natives by armed force. He was even successful in direct ...

> On Feb 20, 11:20 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers -- still the largest diamond company
>> in the world -- and, effectively, "conqueror" of half of Africa,
>> remains an extraordinary illustration of both the best and the worst
>> in the human character, and in the human condition.  The son of a
>> country cleric, he transferred his early religious faith into a
>> passionate fervor for the expansion of the British Empire by whatever
>> means were necessary, as a manifestation of social Darwinism for the
>> improvement and perfection of the human species.  And, in so doing, he
>> created an entire sub-culture of "eager young men", passionately
>> attached to him and his "vision" -- not of a better world, but of a
>> more British world.

>

>> Rhodes travelled to the diamond mines of South Africa as a teenager in ...

> On Feb 20, 11:20 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
>
>

>> Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers -- still the largest diamond company
>> in the world -- and, effectively, "conqueror" of half of Africa,
>> remains an extraordinary illustration of both the best and the worst
>> in the human character, and in the human condition.  The son of a
>> country cleric, he transferred his early religious faith into a
>> passionate fervor for the expansion of the British Empire by whatever
>> means were necessary, as a manifestation of social Darwinism for the
>> improvement and perfection of the human species.  And, in so doing, he
>> created an entire sub-culture of "eager young men", passionately
>> attached to him and his "vision" -- not of a better world, but of a
>> more British world.

>

>> Rhodes travelled to the diamond mines of South Africa as a teenager in ...

> I'm not aware of anything fictitious in what I have said. Please
> specify, if you can.

>  As his power and wealth
> increased, he obtained the legal right...

> On Feb 21, 1:20 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>>  As his power and wealth
>> increased, he obtained the legal right...

>
> Who gave him this "legal right"?
>
> Where did they who gave him that "legal right", get their "legal
> right" to do so from?
>
> Your ideas are typical of the retarded lying confused scumbag left.
>
> You're clearly blaming capitalism, which without government cronyism
> intervention MUST RELY ENTIRELY upon voluntary interactions between
> peaceful human beings, each and every single one seeking a greater for
> lesser value in the result of their trade, as is in their nature to do
> so.
>
> You're blaming that moral system (voluntary interactions) of human ...

> On Feb 20, 3:46 pm, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>> I'm not aware of anything fictitious in what I have said.  Please
>> specify, if you can.

>
> You mean other than Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" having anything to do
> with Cecil Rhodes?
>
> King Leopold ll of Belgium, maybe - and the atrocities committed by
> the Belgians in the Congo, almost certainly. But it had nothing to do
> with Rhodes.
>
> But when you are one of your frothing-at-the-mouth rants about
> "capitalism", facts (not to mention reality) don't seem to concern you
> in the least.
>
> Fred Weiss

> Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers -- still the largest diamond company
> in the world -- and, effectively, "conqueror" of half of Africa,
> remains an extraordinary illustration of both the best and the worst
> in the human character, and in the human condition. The son of a
> country cleric, he transferred his early religious faith into a
> passionate fervor for the expansion of the British Empire by whatever
> means were necessary, as a manifestation of social Darwinism for the
> improvement and perfection of the human species. And, in so doing, he
> created an entire sub-culture of "eager young men", passionately
> attached to him and his "vision" -- not of a better world, but of a
> more British world.
>
> Rhodes travelled to the diamond mines of South Africa as a teenager in
> the early 1870's, did well, used his money to take a degree at Oxford,
> returned to South Africa and used his charm and experience to take
> over the mineral markets of Africa. As his power and wealth
> increased, he obtained the legal right to use his companies to raise
> money for private armies, and to take huge tracts of African land from
> the natives by armed force. He was even successful in direct ...