Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



Society without Government 



From Morley's Rousseau^ vol. ii, p. 227, note. (Eversley 

 edition, 1910.) 



" Jefferson, who was American minister in France from 

 1784 to 1789, and absorbed a great many of the ideas 

 then afloat, writes in words that seem as if they were 

 borrowed from Rousseau : ' I am convinced that those 

 societies (as the Indians), which live without government, 

 enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree 

 of happiness than those who live under European govern- 

 ments. Among the former public opinion is in the state of 

 law, and restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did any- 

 where. Among the latter, under pretence of government, 

 they have divided the nation into two classes, wolves and 

 sheep. I do not exaggerate ; this is a true picture of 

 Europe.' " (From Tucker's Life of Jefferson, vol. i,p. 255.) 



Security without Government 



From Tafi/et, p. 353. By W. B. Harris. (Blackwood, 1 895.) 



" The Moors have a proverb, and it is a very true one, 

 that safety and security can only be found in the districts 

 where there is no government that is to say, where the 

 government is a tribal one." 



Degradation through " Civilisation " 



From The Spiritualism of the Zulu. By C. H. Bull, or 

 Durban. 



" Thirty-two years ago, I lived for some time in a district 

 in Natal, then thickly populated with natives, still con- 



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