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of the masses of Bantu which swarm in our towns, and the 

 tremendous problems, social and political, which crowd about 

 them? Are they alone of no interest to the academic, of no 

 urgency to the sociologist, of no use to the politician (when not 

 driven by danger or agitation to consider them), that the sciences 

 of ethnology and philology, which open up their psychology, are 

 scarcely risen above the horizon of the learned world here, are 

 scorned as fads by the general public, mocked at by the poli- 

 tician, as unworthy of encouragement or support? 



If meteorology and chemistry have to do with farming 

 (but how many farmers guessed of it, or knew the names of 

 such sciences 50 years ago?), then, surely, ethnology, philology, 

 and native psychology and sociology have to do with the safety, 

 good government, and progress of this country. It is not an 

 academic matter, but one of the most practical we ever touched. 



Cease, I say, to play the superannuated farmer, when your 

 farm is the souls, bodies, and estate of the millions of this sub- 

 continent. 



