The Zulu in Three Tenses : Being a Forecast of the Zulu's Future in the Light of His Past And His Present
The Zulu in Three Tenses : Being a Forecast of the Zulu's Future in the Light of His Past And His Present
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But still further bewildering in its effect on tke Zulu mind is the fact that, side by side, and mixed up with this European law, there is a code of Native law, many things in which are grossly inconsistent with the spirit of the new law he is called upon to obey. Native law he could under- staxvd and appreciate, though it be sometimes very irksome. Civilised law he neither under- stood nor appreciated, but accepted it as the i'pse dixit of the A7nakosi — ^his rulers. But a combination of the t...wo is a thousand times worse than either of the others separately could be, making a tangled skein that he regards as im- possible to unravel.
A law that permits him to have as many wives as he likes, and yet forbids him managing those wives in the only way long experience has taught him to be possible ; that enrols him as the subject of some officially recognised chief, and yet permits him to disobey the order of that chief, and, metaphorically at least, to snap his fingers in his face ; that calls upon him to be loyal to King and country, and yet, when that country is in- vaded by an enemy, insists upon his "sitting still," and doing nothing in its defence; such a law is to him, if not vanity, certaiidy a "vexation of spirit," the result being the abandonment of any honest effort to comply with all the intricate details of such a contradictory tangle, and a cal- lous indifference to any results that may accrue to himself for such non-compliance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But still further bewildering in its effect on tke Zulu mind is the fact that, side by side, and mixed up with this European law, there is a code of Native law, many things in which are grossly inconsistent with the spirit of the new law he is called upon to obey. Native law he could under- staxvd and appreciate, though it be sometimes very irksome. Civilised law he neither under- stood nor appreciated, but accepted it as the i'pse dixit of the A7nakosi — ^his rulers. But a combination of the t...wo is a thousand times worse than either of the others separately could be, making a tangled skein that he regards as im- possible to unravel.
A law that permits him to have as many wives as he likes, and yet forbids him managing those wives in the only way long experience has taught him to be possible ; that enrols him as the subject of some officially recognised chief, and yet permits him to disobey the order of that chief, and, metaphorically at least, to snap his fingers in his face ; that calls upon him to be loyal to King and country, and yet, when that country is in- vaded by an enemy, insists upon his "sitting still," and doing nothing in its defence; such a law is to him, if not vanity, certaiidy a "vexation of spirit," the result being the abandonment of any honest effort to comply with all the intricate details of such a contradictory tangle, and a cal- lous indifference to any results that may accrue to himself for such non-compliance.
What to read after The Zulu in Three Tenses : Being a Forecast of the Zulu's Future in the Light of His Past And His Present?
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