Men like Scott have featured hundreds of times in British history, conquering India and nameless islands in the East Indian archipelago, colonizing Africa and fighting battles against the whole world, always with the same iron energy, the same collective consciousness and the same cold, reserved expression.
S. Zweig,'The Race to reach the South pole' (1927), tr. A.Bell, in Triumph and Disaster: Five historical miniatures (2016), 40
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