492 xATivi': i:i)L'c ATiox ix Tin; tkaxskei. 



never >eeni able to get accurate knowledge I I.et us at least take 

 note of the last two colounms of liable XVI. 



The expansion of expense would come in three ways : — 



{a) Higher grants for teachers; 

 {b) Larger attendances, therefore more teachers; 

 { c ) ( irants for scIiikjI c(|uipment ( perhajjs including build- 

 ings ). 



(a } J Uglier grants for teachers, a> we have seen, is a reform 

 already long overdue, and in any case mtist be faced soon. The 

 increase will not be confined to the direct increase of salary, it 

 will affect the good service allowances also. 



ib) Larger attendances and more teachers. — The larger 

 attendances necessarily will involve the provision of many more 

 teachers — say, on a very conservative estimate, three times as 

 many teachers as at present, for only 65,138 children out of a 

 possible 230.979 children, now attend school in the Transkei. 



If the missionary body is likewise to be increased, the respon- 

 sibilities of missionary societies will also be proportionatel}- 

 increased. 



( c) Grants fur more buildings and eqitipmcnt. — in the third 

 place the cost ot equipment for all these additional children will 

 be very great indeed — so great that it might well become necessary 

 for Government to relieve missionary societies from the ex})ense 

 of new buildings. 



All these consideratitjns siiow how far off we are from 

 making education compulsor\- ; btit by no means does the matter 

 end there. What will not come b\- conipttlsion may come to a 

 great extent in a vohmtary way. and the growth NNitltin recent 

 years of the niunbers of children attending schcjo! is significant 

 of much. .Special attention is drawn t<) this increase, li is well 

 for tile point to be realised b} all. 



Finally the cost of administration, already great, w ill neces- 

 sarily be nnich greater. We ai)pear to be on the eve ot a 

 renaissance of learning m tlie 1 ran^ke'. it our scliooi returns ma\ 

 be taken as evidence. 



This is no place to make an academic pronouncement as to 

 the superiority of the intelleclual gifts of the white race — we are 

 here ccjncerned only with the {|uestion how to make the best of 

 the material available. We nnist Ijc alive to the dangers of allow- 

 ing primitive races to live within oiu" boundaries, perpetuatmg in 

 their ignorance and even tlevelo[>ing under the security of our 

 rule the moral e\ils of heatiien lite. As a young man of this great 

 land, and with the exj)erience gained as k missionary living in the 

 midst of our Transkeian natives — perhaps the furthest advanced 

 of all the natives of the Union are tound there — and weighing my 

 words carefully so as not to overstate the case, 1 would .say that 

 even to-day the moral evils of native life are unspeakable and 

 widesi)read. If tnir intellectual gifts are superior, then the 

 resjKinsibility inexitably rests upon u< My to guide and direct these 



