Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations predominantly Africa and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature continue to be popular and influential.