Identifier: drjameso00fort (find matches)
Title: Dr. Jameson
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Fort, G. Seymour (George Seymour), 1858-
Subjects: Jameson, Dr., 1853-1917 Jameson's raid, 1895-1896
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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effort he had found himself possessedof power over men and women, and for ten yearshad stood the test of a great popularity, easilywon and easily held. In a virile community,amongst dare-devil, hard-headed men, he had heldhis own, and by sheer force of character createdfor himself a distinct influence and power. Just asKimberley had changed from a tent-dwelling com-munity of prospectors and speculators to theprosaic streets of industrial orderliness, so had he,from a mere medical practitioner, grown to recog-nize himself capable of the leadership and controlof men. Living for ten years in the midst ofgambling and recklessness, of meteoric alterna-tions of success and despair, the non-moral aspectsof success, the naked facts, the complex realitiesof life, had all been open to his view. As medicaladviser to one and all, he was in the position of aspectator who, from behind the scenes, sees theworking of the wires that make the puppets dance.An observer of the lives and outlook of nomads
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■s u KIMBERLEY. 83 and elemental men, they had called to him, andin some subtle way he had answered their call.No man could go through the peculiar experiencesof these years without gaining in responsibility andin knowledge. It was, therefore, in no light-hearted,irresponsible spirit, but with all the seriousnessof his thirty -five years of strenuous life, that hevolunteered to save the situation for Rhodes.Having then no partner to look after his practice,his mission would probably occupy him manymonths, and his offer to go to Bulawayo meant adefinite abandonment of his professional career. Although subsequent events have amply justifiedhis action, it was at the time no light matter forhim to give up the certain successes of his pro-fession for the wider possibilities and uncertainissues of Rhodes venture in map-making. Thereare no unstable elements in his character, and itwas no momentary impulse that impelled him toembark upon the quasi-military, quasi-political,and wholly commer

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