.Le Temps, a paper - remarkable for its dislike of this
country, has been greatly struck by the reported terms of Mr. Rhodes's will. Its conductors even consider the great legacies to educa. tion as homages to intelligence and ideas, and proofs that England will not be brutalised by the worship of gold and the sword. It is always pleasant to find Frenchmen fairly just to their old rivals, but is not appreciation in this case based on rather thin evidence ? The legacies show that Mr. Rhodes was not a man of small selfishness, or immersed in care for his family, but the governing idea of to-day that intelligence extinguishes all tendency to worship success and force is surely opposed to history. The great conquerors have always been men of intelligence, and usually men of education. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Frederick the Great were all men of the highest in- telligence, developed by much training, and all believed in gold and iron as the instruments which ruled the world. Lord Lytton thought that in some stages of society intelligence hardened men by separating them too completely from their fellows, and that opinion, by which be explained Richard
is certainly supported by the whole history of black slavery. Under that system the intelligent torture, and the brutal endure.
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