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all others, and what has enabled him to build up such 

 magnificent nations as the United States, the Canadas 

 and Australasia, and is so rapidly developing South 

 Africa. 



That many fail, and instead of succeeding drop in 

 the social scale, take to drink, or otherwise go to the 

 dogs at the Cape as elsewhere, is but too true ; but 

 this they would have done wherever they were, and 

 is what they are daily doing in all the colonies. But 

 there is no need that this should happen to a single 

 one of them at the Cape, if they can only once get a 

 footing. The first thing is to get some good introduc- 

 tions to leading men there, with a fair prospect of their 

 either offering Juvenis employment, or finding some-one 

 else who will do so. 



The best immigrants are those who leave England 

 between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. After 

 the latter age the mind seems to have been too fully 

 imbued with fixed notions, and does not so readily 

 embrace new phases of life, or adapt itself to new toils 

 and pleasures. There is no special early training that 

 gives one an advantage over another — certainly nothing 

 in the shape of a training to English farming, which is 

 far more likely to prove a disadvantage than otherwise, 

 especially if it has been taught in a scientific manner. 

 Juvenis has then not only to begin and learn every- 

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