Dear Maillist members,
Good afternoon. I hope that you are having a nice weekend.
I am wondering whether anyone could offer me help. I cannot identify
Kiping's passage quoted by Edmund Gosse in his review article of the writer.
The quote in question is:
"God in his wisdom has made the heart of the British soldier, who is very
often an unlicked ruffian, as soft as the heart of a little child, in order
that he may believe in and his officers into tight and nasty places."
As Gosse's article was originally published in 1891, the passage must be
from Kipling's earlier works. Do you have any idea?
Many thanks in advance,
Shizen Ozawa(, who is "finishing" his thesis on Kipling for quite a while)
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