Haggard's stories are among the very best adventure tales of his time. I see no reason to complain that they don't dovetail perfectly with present day political sensibilities. Why would they? What would be the odds against it? Astronomical, I would think. Nothing written back then dovetails with the political sensibilities of this time.

As for us now with all our pretensions...we will appear as fools or barbarians to some future order of thought. That's how it goes.