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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 82, 16 May 1918, Page 2

Max Muller, a discerning German wrote in 1885 the following little homily on the English, and in these days what hd'wrote is especially interesting—and true: Here it is: “ The English nation is of good old stock, and woe to him who •. forgets that! England will never be conquered—before the last Englishman, the last Scotsman, the last Irishman, the last Canadian, the last Australian, the last Sikh—aye, the last Yankee has fallen. England is the only country that lias not armed. But drive England into a corner, and tomorrow every man is a soldier. Her colonies have ideas and ideals of their own, but at heart they are passionately devoted to the Motherland. Threaten the mother and the whelks will fight as never people fought yet in all the world’s bloody history.”