The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, December 9, 1915. A PROPHECY FULFILLED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1483, 9 December 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, December 9, 1915. A PROPHECY FULFILLED.

The following extract from the life of that distinguished German, the late Professor Max Muller, written during 1884 and 1885, must greatly interest everyone at the present time: “When one reads the discussions in Parliament one might easily fear for England, but they are mere fireworks. The nation is of good old stock, and woe to him who forgets this. England will never be conquered, never before the last Englishman, the last Scotsman, the last Irishman-aye, the last Australian, the last Canadian, the last Newfoundlander, the last Sikh —aye, the last Yankee, has fallen. Every man in Europe is now a soldier. England is the only land that has not taken to armylng the people. Drive England into a corner, and to-morrow every man is a soldier. There may be jealousies between her colonies, but if it came to extremities the colonies would allow no hair of England to be touched. Even India, which was formerly a danger, has shown that England’s enemies are her enemies.”