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city, to do my little part to secure, if possible, that the next 

 generation shall be better trained than myself. 



I yield to none in thankfulness for the mighty work which 

 both administrators and missions have done these many years 

 for this land, as has been testified by many in regard to the 

 latter, and cannot understand how men in general, if only for the 

 country's sake, can be apathetic to their efifectiveness. On the 

 other hand, it is clear that those responsible are awaking to the 

 lack of training, and even the word " phonetics " has been men- 

 tioned. 



I would not, indeed, wish to be understood to say that no 

 one can be an administrator or a missionary, who is untrained 

 in the sciences I am recommending; I think the keenest and pro- 

 bably most effective European evangelist, for example, whom I 

 know, is one who does not know or want to know anything about 

 them. I am a profound disbeliever in education, in the conven- 

 tional sense, as a panacea for all ills, and if a man is to be a 

 m.ere evangelist (I use the epithet without disparagement) he 

 may very well dispense with much. But more and more, I be- 

 lieve, native evangelists should be relied upon to evangelize their 

 own people (as they can and will do far better than European, 

 knowing better their own wants) ; and so Livingstone himself 

 desired : thus setting the European free to teach the native 

 teachers ivhat they have not and cannot have, and guide the 

 general policy of the movement, in loyalty to all that is morally 

 sound, both for the individual and the social life. For this the 

 European leader must have, certainly, the best specialist training, 

 and not least in the psychology of nations, to which science both 

 philology and anthropology are undoubtedly ancillary. 



Again, if this is true oi missions, it is true of administrators 

 also, that more and more they should be needed, in any healthy 

 political development, such as has been usefully tried under the 

 Glen Grey Act, not for ruling in detail, so much as for guiding 

 local govenment, with very much the same specialist training, 

 in many ways at least, as we have seen to be important in the case 

 of missionaries. 



Some may have thought this paper unpractical. It is not 

 about gold or diamonds, unless we count the natives black ones, 

 as, for their value to the country, we well might. But a practical 

 question does emerge from our rapid survey of the opening up 

 of our land : — where is the South African ethnological bureau ? 

 Practical America has such an institution, elaborately studying 

 her few Red men and their history. India has her Stricklands, 

 with whom Kipling has made us familiar; but apparently in this 

 country such an institution is considered unnecessary, for no one 

 can suppose that its purposes are fulfilled by the Native Aflfairs 

 Department, admirable as its operations are, and we hear no talk 

 of anything further. 



The dwindling Hottentots we leave to Dr. Peringuey, the 

 dead Bushman to the Bleek family and Miss VVilman ; but what 



