Stead’s opinion was that Rhodes was a practical mystic of the Cromwell type. Stead was right. Rhodes was a Cromwell. He was Cromwellian in thoroughness, he was Napoleonic in audacity, and he was Nelsonic in execution.
“Let us praise famous men.” (Ecclesiasticus, chapter 44, verse 1).
From Lord Fisher to a Friend
36, Berkeley Square.
My Dear Friend,
I was asked yesterday: Could I end the War?
I said: “Yes, by one decisive stroke!”
“What’s the stroke?” I was asked.
I replied: “Never prescribe till you are called in.”
But I said this: “Winston once told me, ‘You can see Visions! That’s why you should come back.’”