Papers of William Kingdon Clifford

(Malaga.) As a result of being stranded at sea, his 'poor child' [Lucy] was sick and they missed their intended boat from Almeria. The Pall Mall Budget was welcome, and an Englishman has got him into the Círculo Malagueño, a 'decent' club which has a good many papers. Discusses Greenwood's remarks on Clémenceau and the 'religious irreconcileables', and the current political climate in France generally, with reference to his own experiences there. 'As for this country, I think it requires to be colonized by the white man. The savages would gradually die out in his presence. One sees here how God makes man through the instrumentality of his Holy Church, when He gets him all to Himself for some centuries . . . . The mark of a degraded race is clear upon their faces.' Gives examples from his own experience of the dishonesty of Spaniards. 'How would it do to add Hungary and German Austria to Germany, and make Austria into a Slav state with capital at Constantinople? The Hungarian free-thinkers would balance the Austrian ultramontanes, and Russia would be well out of it.'

(Partly printed in Lectures and Essays, i. 58-9.)