If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,  But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,  Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;  If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster  And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings  And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew  To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you  Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,  Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,  If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute  With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,  And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

So much happened in this section that I can’t even keep track of it all.  But this stuck out to me: “Then you think I had better go?” said Hurree Babu, half rising.  “They are of course, dematerialised phenomena.  Spencer says -“ (Kipling 221) The footnote here says Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), author of The Principles of Psychology (1855) and The Principles of Sociology (1876-96), among many…

There were lots of things in this section that interested me.  I will focus on two of them. “The Gods, who sent it for a plague, alone know.  A madness ate into all the Army, and they turned against their officers.  That was the first evil, but not past remedy if they had then held their hands.  But they chose to kill the Sahibs’ wives and children.  Then came the Sahibs from over the sea and…