mind in dealing with all such matters is evident.  
Not only must the statesman be a philosopher, but 
he should also have in his composition not a little of 
the mystic.  We do not use the word mystic in the 
specialized sense, in which it is too often employed 
today.  The true mystic is one who sees all 
phenomena without bias, prejudice, self-interest, or 
obfuscation.  In thinking of kingdoms, he thinks of 
spiritual kingdoms; and here again we must use the 
word spiritual in its oldest and widest sense.  In 
such kingdoms faith is more than frontiers, 
language and literature more than markets.  Ireland 
has been systematically depopulated; every engine 
of oppression has been set in motion against her; 
but she has never been conquered and never can be 
conquered, because the Anglo-Saxon can never get 
her point of view.  In the same way India has 
overcome every one of her invaders in turn, though 
she has never been able to resist even the least of 
them successfully by arms.  The English in India 
have become, within two generations, more Indian 
than the Indians themselves, in many important 
respects, particularly in that of caste.  In the case of 
South Africa it is once again evident how far more 
vital than material considerations are the spiritual.  
The Boers, driven from one settlement to another by 
the most barefaced treachery and tyranny, and 
finally conquered in their last stronghold by 
invading armies outnumbering them twenty to one, 
were yet able to reconquer their country for 
themselves, without a drop of bloodshed, within a 
decade of the fall of Pretoria.