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waste places, all the nakedness of the European system, 

 both by reading and travel. The great wealth can no 

 longer dazzle them, or conceal from their view the vast 

 masses of the population living under what they once 

 supposed to be the ideal system who are of no earthly 

 use to themselves or to others. . . . Under the African 

 system of communal property and co-operative effort, every 

 member of a community has a home and a sufficiency of 

 food and clothing and other necessaries of life and for 

 life ; and his children after him have the same advantages. 

 In this system there is no workhouse and no necessity for 

 such an arrangement." 



O ver-g over nment 



From Wallace's Malay Archipelago, p. 3 36. (1894 edition.) 



"This motley, ignorant, bloodthirsty, thievish popu- 

 lation (Papuans, Javanese, Chinese, etc.), live here without 

 the shadow of a government, with no police, no courts, 

 and no lawyers ; yet they do not cut each other's throats ; 

 do not plunder each other day and night ; do not fall into 

 the anarchy such a state of things might be supposed to 

 lead to. It is very extraordinary ! It puts strange thoughts 

 into one's head about the mountain-load of government 

 under which people exist in Europe, and suggests the idea 

 that we may be over-governed. Think of the hundred 

 Acts of Parliament annually enacted to prevent us, the 

 people of England, from cutting each other's throats, or 

 from doing to dur neighbours as we would not be done by. 

 Think of the thousands of lawyers and barristers whose 

 whole lives are spent in telling us what the hundred Acts 

 of Parliament mean, and one would be led to infer that 

 if Dobbo has too little law England has too much." 



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