9o POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



gious propensities; such a nature under the stimulus of education de- 

 velops strong and helpful personalities and remarkable powers of 

 acquisition. Scholarship is far from uncommon, and skill in com- 

 position is admired and displayed. A slight social segregation is 

 perhaps becoming evident as competency, educational opportunities and 

 self-indulgence separate an upper from the more peasant classes. Yet 

 the traditional democratic instincts remain and will always assert 

 themselves at any national crisis. At present, political agitation for 

 some sort of hegemony should be discouraged, and every energy bent 

 towards the processes of amelioration by which transit over and 

 through the island will become facilitated, more of its interior occupied, 

 flocks increased, manufactures laid down and comfort disseminated. 



