PRMSIDKN T'AL ADTIRKSS — SECTION E. 157 



Apart from these considerations, it is necessary to recognise 

 that the native has a contribution to make in the direction of 

 national expression, and is to be rej^^arded as a valuable asset 

 for that purpose also. 



Sixthly, there is the moral obligation resting upon us. for 

 morally we are bound to educate the native. It is unthinkable 

 that the white man should remain parasitic upon the native to 

 the extent of drawing a great revenue from native taxation, and 

 not returning an adequate amount in grants for native education, 

 and the many other interests and needs of the native peoples. 



Finally, there is the highest obligation of all. We must 

 never forget that our State is a Christian State, that its laws 

 are based on Christian principles, thus admitting that the best 

 basis is the Christian one. If, then, we are even true to our 

 national principles, we must accept the spiritual obligation which 

 requires us to establish our subject peoples on the best basis, and 

 constitutes the supreme claim for native education and develop- 

 ment. And, in any case, having broken the bonds of tribalism for- 

 ever, and secured the isolation of the individual, it is essential now 

 that the sanctions of the Christion religion should replace the 

 scourgings and lashings of heathenism, for whatever their 

 character, they did at least operate to organise the tribe, govern 

 thought, and prevent hopeless confusion ; and now that these are 

 gone, even ordinary reasoning demands, in the light of experience, 

 -that the new-found .freedom be steadied by the vision and dynamic 

 of the Christian religion, and that each individual may thus 

 strive to mould his life according to the highest ideals. 

 Individualism of such a type would indeed be a worthy terminas 

 in the whole great transition from communism. Bolshevism 

 represents the inevitable alternative. 



