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of life, constantly striving to better them and bring 

 them forward, but not twisting them aside from their 

 natural line of development, nor wrenching them loose 

 from what was good in their past, by attempting the 

 impossible task of turning an entire native population 

 into black Englishmen at one stroke. 



The problem set to tlie governing caste in Uganda is 

 totally different from tliat which offers itself in British 

 East Africa. The highlands of East Africa form a 

 white man's country, and the prime need is to build up 

 a large, healthy population of true white settlers, white 

 home makers, who shall take the land as an inheritance 

 for their children's children. Uganda can never be this 

 kind of white man's country ; and although planters 

 I and merchants of the right type can undoubtedly do 

 I well there — to the advantage of the country as well as 

 I of themseh'es — it must remain essentially a black man's 

 I country, and the chief task of the officials of the 

 \ intrusive and masterful race must be to bring forward 

 * the natives, to train them, and above all to help them 

 train themselves, so that they may advance in industry, 

 I in learning, in morality, in capacity for self-government 

 I — for it is idle to talk of " giving " a people self- 

 ' government ; the gift of the forms, when the inward 

 I spirit is lacking, is mere folly ; all that can be done is 

 ( patiently to help a people accjuire the necessary qiiali- 

 : ties — social, moral, intellectual, industrial, and. lastly, 

 I political — and meanwhile to exercise for their benefit, 

 with justice, sympathy, and firmness, the governing 

 ability which as yet they themselves lack. The widely- 

 ' spread rule of a strong European race in lands like 

 I Africa gives, as one incident thereof, the chance for 

 nascent cultures, nascent semi-civilizations, to develop 

 I without fear of being overwhelmed in the surrounding 



