William Ralph Inge - The Spirit of Fair-Play 汉译

This spirit of fair-play, which in the public schools, at any rate, is absorb as the most inviolable of traditions, has stood our race in good stead in the professions, and especially in the administration of dependencies, where the obvious desire of the officials to deal justly and see fair-play in disputes between natives and Europeans has partly compensated for a want of sympathetic understanding, which has kept the English strangers in lands of alien culture.

这种公正的精神，至少在私立公校中是当作最为神圣不可侵犯的传统而加以全神贯注的。这种精神在人们的供职上，尤其是在属地统治上，对于英国民族是很有用的。当统治属地时，英国的官员抱着一种显然的愿望，想要公正地处理土人与欧人间的争执，而冀得到公平的解决，使英国人处在海外的异族文化中，因缺乏同情的谅解而格格不入的情形，多少获得了一点补偿。