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Updated: May 11, 2025
Mr Alexander, one of the Overlanders of '62, tells how 'Begbie's decisions may not have been good law, but they were first-class justice. His 'doctrine was that if a man were killed, some one had to be hanged for it; and the effect was salutary. A man had been sandbagged in a Victoria saloon and thrown out to die. His companion in the saloon was arrested and tried.
Wherever there are hordes of hungry, adventurous men, there will be desperadoes. In spite of Begbie's justice, robberies occurred on the road and not a few murders. The time going in and out varied; but the journey could be made in five days and was often made in four. The building of the Cariboo Road had an important influence on the camp that its builders could not foresee.
And yet we have also felt the force of that persistent and penetrating How? Dr. Blund is no frolic of Mr. Begbie's imagination. Dr. Blund is the representative of all those and their name is legion who, in the crisis of the soul's secret history, have turned towards the Saviour's strange saying with the most intense wistfulness and yearning.
The attention that Harold Begbie's book "Twice-Born Men" received, was to me later in life a source of surprise. One forgets that the various religions and sects which aimed at the healing of men's souls have concerned themselves more with intellectual creeds than material, Christ-like ends. At first it was not so. Paul rejoiced that he was a new man.
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