150 FrXfRE OF NATIVE EACES OF S. RHODESIA. 



The provision in Eeserves of such things as sports centres, 

 cinemas, hospitals, art schools, and many other things I have no 

 time to touch upon, nor is there any need to do so. All I have 

 in mind is to present to you the possibility and the desirability of 

 vitalising native life in these localities where the mass of native? 

 must reside, where the main currents of native opinion are 

 formed. 



And now I must close. I feel that I have been too discursive, 

 and have touched all too lightly on many matters that require 

 volumes for adequate treatment. All I have hoped to do is merelv 

 this :— 



I have outlined a theory of physical, intellectual, and moral 

 limitation of races, and racial development, which may at least 

 be taken as a working hypothesis. 



I have applied this hypothesis in the three different spheres 

 to the native races of Southern Rhodesia, and stated my belief 

 as to their relative state and capacity in each sphere, showing 

 what is possible with the human material we have to deal with. 



And I have, very shortly, outlined the steps which appear to 

 be the first on the road of sound development of the intellectual 

 and moral possibilities. 



After fourteen years of life amongst natives I am neither an 

 optimist nor a pessimist. Not an optimist, because I have daily 

 experience of the difficulties of the situation : not a pessimist, 

 because I see possibilities of success. 



Taking what I believe to be a sane and reasonable view of all 

 the factors and possibilities, I hope. And, if I live another fifty 

 years in this territory, and can still hope, I shall be content. 



]\Iy hope of the future is this : a State where ever^'one, white 

 and black, makes full economic use of his abilities : where the 

 black man shall not be shut out from any sphere of activity by a 

 narrow and timid coloui* bar, and where the white man will reap 

 the reward for his generosity in the opportunities arising from the 

 immense economic development of a countr}' in which he will 

 be a directing and predominant partner. 



Unless we have faith enough in our civilisation to submit it 

 to the test of being used as a lever to raise the native, we shall 

 pay the penalt3% and the native question of the future will be a 

 crumbling pillar in the political edifice. If we build with faith 

 in what we stand for, we shall build buttresses for our civilisation. 



