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prevent the native ever groAving away from his natural state? " 

 Apart from any ethical aspect, apart from the question of the 

 right to rise," we do not do these things for the same reason 

 that King Canute did not stop the rising tide. Whether we like 

 it or not, intellectual development will reach these people. Their 

 intellectual milieu is changing before our eyes. , 



Our hoj^e of salvation lies in this — we must use every effort, 

 we must bend the whole force of our national genius to tliis : 

 that the moral development of the native shall proceed pari passu 

 with the intellectual development. As a link is added to the 

 chain of Intellectual Social Heredity, at the same time a link 

 must be added to the chain of Moral Social Heredity. Incident- 

 ally we must take what steps are possible to ensure that the 

 intellectually developing native makes full use of the lengthening 

 chain of Intellectual Environment in all directions. Harmony is 

 strength, and a healthy development demands harmonious 

 development in all directions. But the essential desideratum is 

 development of the Social Heredity, the Environment, of moral 

 power, the creation of a milieu favourable to' the absolute moral 

 virtues, those virtues which I have before mentioned. Even if 

 the Bantu races have a different Eacial Heredity of Moral Power 

 from the white races, an inferior heredity, so that they can never 

 rise to the commanding; political position of the white races, yet 

 their environment in this matter can be vastly improved, and 

 must be vastly improved, if we are to remove some of that 

 characteristic of jicldeness which has always been the vice of 

 negi'o peoples. When negro races have been intruded into 

 European institutions, where European institutions have been 

 thrust upon negro races, the great cause of failure has always 

 been in the moral rather than the intellectual sphere, and one 

 of the most frequently recurring complaints has been fickleness. 

 It is in the moral sphere we must concentrate our efforts, or we 

 shall be shaped for disaster. 



Do not think that the moral virtues will come as the intel- 

 lectual development proceeds. They will not. 



In discussing Labour Government, the average Englishman, 

 sententious, says: " Of course, power and responsibility w^ould 

 be a great influence for moderation if ever we should have a Labour 

 Government. 



I fancy there is a scarce-formed, yet power-exercising, 

 analogous idea abroad in respect of native intellectual develop- 

 ment and moral steadiness. People say, or perhaps feel, without 

 saying : — 



" Of conr.se, as they develop od those various lines, approximating 

 to European conditions in such and such a matter and in this, that, 

 and the other thing, they will pick up ideas of stability, and responsi- 

 bility. There will h<i agitators, of course, but the great mass will, as 

 always, be slow to move." 



That is a very, very great mistake. Nothing whatever in the 

 history of black races bears it out. What staliility they have 

 shown in the past has always been in their independent state, 

 when conditions have favoured the power being in the hands of 

 those who in the moral sphere (in mental vigour, etc.) surpassed 

 their fellows, and who, by their possession of absolute moral 



