Arizona republican., 1902-04-13

most uncertain success. It may be that he was too impatient by temperament and too negligent of details to pre- pare safely working scheme. Rho- desia is still an experiment and not profitable one. It was in his diamond and gold mining projects that he pro duced positive results, and in both cases his plan was scarcely novel and he had the ab!est Of assistants.
 Both his idealism and his practical ity are clearly revealed in his will. There in a hint of the socialist in his vision of a world wide peace and brotherhood of races, but the man of affairs speaks in his objection to hay ing ''loafer" for an heir and his com ment on college authorities being like children as to commercial matters"
 His choice of Oxford as the place where the students who were to profit by his benefaction are to be educated was, of course a matter of sentiment And here, again, his contempt for ac- cepted educational theories and his un- questioning idealism crop out. His aim, as he expressed it in his will. in drawing the picked youth of the United States and the British colonies and Germany to Oxford was to give breadth to their views. and for their instruction in life and manners" The method laid down for the allotment of the scholarships and other references in his will demonstrate plainly that he did not seek primarily to provide for the training of men of learning. Tie type he had in mind was the educated man of affairs, and not the mere scholar
 Even if Rhodes scheme had been to turn cut men of eruditicn solely there would be room for two opinions as to his selection of Oxford. The American student makes his choice of foreign universities according to the class of studies he wishes to pursue. But Rhodes stipulation that Oxford is to be the place Of residence of the bene- ficiaries of his fund will be the more certain to be debated. because it was his purpose to created an international working force Of men of liberal ideas and broad sympathies. The question will suggest itself, especially to Ameri- cans, whether it would not have been wiser to have founded a number of travelling scholarships, whether the con- servatism of Oxford altogether fulflls all the requirements of the Rhodes plan. and whether a wider experience of life than the old university town would not have tended better to pro duce the results the founder desired. But Rhodes was too strongly British in character to be the prefect cosmcpoli- tan.
 Life in South Africa made Rhodes take a coloniais as well as an English mans view of those statesmen at home who favored a system of colonies under English rule, and from a sense of jus tice to the colonies he meditated upon q federation between the parts of the empire T. was his constant complaint that the English were lacking in sym pathy with their children across the seas. Imperialism. to his mind. must be liberal n it's tendencies and not con servative. national. not sectional. Tax ing instruction from his own experience it may perhaps be thought strange that, in the development of his scheme for " union of the English-speaking peoples CT the world he did not pro- vide that Q certain number of young EnglishTen should be educated In America and South Africa ana .aus- tralia, instead of reversing the rule.