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Updated: May 1, 2025
If America chooses to "take up the white man's burden" in the Kiplingesque sense, it would ill become England to object; but her doing so is by no means a condition of England's sympathy. It might seem, indeed, that she had plenty of "white man's burden" to shoulder within her own continental boundaries; but that is a matter which she is entirely competent to determine for herself.
Hence, for him were provided those Y. M. C. A. night bookkeeping classes administered by solemn earnest men of thirty for solemn credulous youths of twenty-nine; those sermons on content; articles on "building up the rundown store by live advertising"; Kiplingesque stories about playing the game; and correspondence-school advertisements that shrieked, "Mount the ladder to thorough knowledge the path to power and to the fuller pay-envelope."
His talk was fascinating except when he insisted on repeating to me his own wretched rhymes ... in which he showed he had learned nothing about how to write poetry from his revered Shakespeare ... it was very bad Kiplingesque stuff ... much like my own bad verse of that period....
At its best each person in it feels a responsibility toward each one of the others; each realizes that who a man is is not half so important as what he does, and that ... the game is more than the player of the game And the ship is more than the crew, or, as another poet with a Kiplingesque turn of mind and phrase has it, It is not the guns or armament Or the money they can pay.
It is a type harshly constructive, inclined to an unscrupulous pose and slipping readily into a Kiplingesque brutality. The Samurai on the other hand were more picturesque figures, with a much more elaborated organization. I may perhaps recapitulate the points about that Order here. In the "Modern Utopia" the visitor from earth remarks: "These Samurai form the real body of the State.
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