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enable, or at least permit, us to do so. But the odds are 

 at least ten to one against us. Xot from any unfitness 

 on the side of the aborigines ; not certainly from want of will, 

 or through the failing of the spirit of sacrifice in the Society of 

 Jesus ; but, to put it kindly, because the Anglo-Saxon race is 

 what it is. Proud in its present superiority, that race will 

 remember the lessons of history only when an invading people 

 shall have meted out to it the justice which it lias shown to the 

 helpless blackman. A hundred years, perhaps hundreds, may 

 pass ; but with the teeming millions of Asia at our door, who 

 shall say no day of retribution will come upon Australia ? • 



