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so-called Christian) sects, notably the Ethiopian Church and 

 the Seventh Day Adventists, though a subsidiary cause was to 

 be found in the unduly hard economic conditions prevailing on 

 certain estates. The commissioners made a series of recom- 

 mendations, of which the most important was that missionising 

 sects of this emotional and inflammatory character should be 

 excluded from Nyasaland. 



This instructive episode illustrates well the unexpected and 

 often dangerous responses which the Ethiopian mind is apt to 

 make when coming in contact with higher cultures. It is 

 notorious that there has always existed a sharp division of 

 opinion between practical colonists on the one hand and Chris- 

 tian missionaries and philanthropic theorists on the other 

 hand in regard to the question of the status and treatment of 

 coloured races. The colonists have laid much stress on white 

 superiority, whilst the philanthropists have often advocated 

 an extreme extension of democratic doctrines of equality, 

 which were originally evolved under European conditions. In 

 a long view, the problem is almost the greatest awaiting solu- 

 tion by human statecraft. One may be fairly confident that 

 the trained anthropologist will usually be much less ready 

 than the ordinary politician to propound a theory. Very 

 little is really known of race-psychology. There are, however, 

 a few obvious comments to be made on the question, which 

 should be, but are not, platitudes. Firstly, it is clear that 

 there will need to be in the British Empire as many funda- 

 mentally distinct native policies as there are markedly distinct 

 coloured races. The gap between the European and the 

 Indian is undoubtedly less, I opine much less, than the gulf 

 separating the Indian from the negro. Secondly, very little 

 should be taken for granted, and the aptitudes of natives 

 should be investigated and tested in as many directions as 

 possible. The mind of another race when seriously approached 

 is certain to yield constant surprises. Thirdly, when instilling 

 a new culture into a lower race the motto should evidently be 

 to proceed slowly. 



Further contributions to the question of early and exten- 

 sive migrations have been made by Prof. G. Elliot Smith and 

 Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson. The former scholar has published 

 a paper in the Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental 

 Society, 1915-16, which is entitled " Ships as Evidence of the 



