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as a political and commercial system of intrigue and diplomacy. 

 WTiat would the shameful treatment of the Red Indian have 

 been, had there been no Brainard to give it a ray of human 

 sympathy? What would the flogged, shackled, and enslaved 

 black man of Africa have done, had no Livingstone appeared 

 to show the world that a human heart beats under each black 

 skin? How would China have viewed "western civilization" 

 had no Morrison or Williamson been near to light them along 

 humanized and religious pathways? 



Every country could yield its quota of noble self-sacrificing 

 spirits, projected into it, who have stimulated, elevated, and 

 advanced mankind, if such were willing to be advanced. The 

 sad feature of it all has been that some of the worst, most 

 hard-hearted, least human, and most brutal types of civiliza- 

 tion have been projected into such lower and more primitive 

 forms of nationality, and by their degraded cogitic and sen- 

 suous acts have blasted the lives of those amongst whom they 

 come. Then they have faced round to announce to civilization 

 that Christian missions were a failure for "the natives were 

 fast dying out through the effects of the white man's vices." 

 Another proof this that the world's true religious or spiritic 

 progress has been most retarded by unworthy or hypocritical 

 ones, who shelter, or rather sneak, under its advancing benefits. 



Finally the constantly increasing demands that superman 

 makes on the entire environment of the world for the satis- 

 faction of his proenvironal aspirations are an assurance that 

 only by continuous intercontinental comity can those needs 

 be perfectly satisfied. So whether we stand in Amsterdam, 

 Berlin, Canton, London, New York, or Paris we demand tea 

 from China or India, coffee from Arabia or Brazil, rubber from 

 Central America or the East Indies, ivory or vegetable ivory 

 from Africa or Brazil, spices from Ceylon or Java, corks from 

 France or Spain, leather from Russia or the Argentine, oranges 

 from the West African Isles, Florida, or California, pineapples 

 from Brazil or Malaya, oils and fats from China or North 

 Africa, dates from Egypt and North Africa, tin from Cornwall 

 or Bolivia. 



