Thus the form realized in the last Will and Testament was not the result of any hasty resolution to attempt some great innovation in the method of bequeathing wealth for educational purposes; it was not a philanthropic caprice; it was not a mere response to suggestions occurring to him while casting about, as so often happens, for an answer to the question, ‘How shall I leave my money?’ Both the substance and the letter of the document by which he left £2,000,000 for ‘an educational experiment’ were the result of living and thinking, suggesting and receiving suggestions, accepting and rejecting; and, finally, of careful decision. It represents conclusions; it is characteristic, moreover, of the mind of its author, combining practical judgement with the promptings of an imperial imagination; it represents unbroken confidence in the ideals which to him made life worth living. Soon after the writing of this Will the Boer War broke out, and the political concord between Rhodes and Mr. Stead was at an end. Their friendship, however, continued, and each remained true to the same old ideal—although their opinions as to British rights in South Africa were in violent antithesis. In the original Will Mr. Rhodes left the residue of his real and personal estate to the Earl of Rosebery, Earl Grey, Alfred Beit, William Thomas Stead, Lewis Lloyd Mitchell, and Bourchier Francis Hawksley, absolutely as joint tenants. The same persons were appointed his Executors and Trustees. In a Codicil dated January, 1901, Rhodes directed that the name of W. T. Stead should be removed from the list of his Executors.[5] In October of the same year he added Lord Milner’s name to the list of Executors and joint heirs, and in March, 1902, on his death-bed, that of Dr. Jameson. Before the month was out the great creative imperialist had passed from the scene of his successes. He died at Muizenberg, near Cape Town, on the 26th of March, 1902, in his forty-ninth year. In his constructive fancy he had known no ordinary limits. ‘I would annex the planets if I could.’[6] He had measured by more than the span of a single life or a few generations; he had built for to-morrow as well as for to-day. ‘I find I am human, but should like to live after my death.’[7] He frequently wished ‘that he might return to earth to see how his ideas were prospering, and what was being done with the fortune which he had dedicated to the service of posterity’. His Will expresses in concrete form what were his purposes and what the plans which he left as a sacred Trust to the care and guardianship of his chosen friends. CHAPTER II THE SIXTH AND LAST WILL OF CECIL JOHN RHODES