![]() Downloadable eText version(s) of this book can be found online at Project Gutenberg.Description of the tribal areas of what is now Pakistan, commonly referred to as Waziristan.The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter I.A code of honour not less punctilious than that of old Spain, is supported by vendettas as implacable as those of Corsica. The love of plunder, always a characteristic of hill tribes, is fostered by the spectacle of opulence and luxury which, to their eyes, the cities and plains of the south display. That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword - the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men - stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism. The strong aboriginal propensity to kill, inherent in all human beings, has in these valleys been preserved in unexampled strength and vigour. Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence.Speech in Claverton Down, Bath (26 July 1897), quoted in Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches (2003), p. ![]() Do not believe these croakers but give the lie to their dismal croaking by showing by our actions that the vigour and vitality of our race is unimpaired and that our determination is to uphold the Empire that we have inherited from our fathers as Englishmen (cheers), that our flag shall fly high upon the sea, our voice be heard in the councils of Europe, our Sovereign supported by the love of her subjects, then shall we continue to pursue that course marked out for us by an all-wise hand and carry out our mission of bearing peace, civilisation and good government to the uttermost ends of the earth.
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