It was an Oriental who gave to Queen Victoria the crown of an Empress in addition to that of a Queen.He did not understand that the title of King is higher than that of Emperor.For in the East titles are meant to be vast and wild;to be extravagant poems:the Brother of the Sun and Moon,the Caliph who lives for ever.But a King of England (at least in the days of real kings)did not bear a merely poetical title;but rather a religious one.He belonged to his people and not merely they to him.
He was not merely a conqueror,but a father--yes,even when he was a bad father.But this sort of solid sanctity always goes with local affections and limits:and the Cecil Rhodes Imperialism set up not the King,but the Sultan;with all the typically Eastern ideas of the magic of money,of luxury without uproar;of prostrate provinces and a chosen race.Indeed Cecil Rhodes illustrated almost every quality essential to the Sultan,from the love of diamonds to the scorn of woman.