22-i THE ANGLO-SAXON AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE. 



ness crying: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord!" The 

 savage is a hunter ; by the incoming of civihzation tlie 

 game is driven away and disappears before the hunter 

 becomes a herder or an agriculturist. The savage 

 ignorant of many diseases of civihzation which, w\'" 

 he is exposed to them, attack him before he learns t^" 

 to treat them. Civilization also has its vices, of wh'^ 

 the uninitiated savage is innocent. He proves an'^" 

 learner of vice, but dull enough in the school of mor 



Every civilization has its destructive and preserva^' 

 elements. The Anglo-Saxon race would speedily de^^ 

 but for the salt of Christianity. Bring savages "^ 

 contact with our civilization, and its destructive fc'^^^' 

 become operative at once, while years are necessary^^ 

 render effective the saving influences of Christian ^^ 

 struction. Moreover, the pioneer wave of our civi^®- 

 tion carries w^th it more scum than salt. Where t^^^ 

 is one missionary, there are hundreds of miners v. 

 traders or adventurers ready to debauch the native. 



Whether the extinction of inferior races before the 

 advancing Anglo-Saxon seems to the reader sad or other- 

 wise, it certainly appears probable. I know of nothing 

 except climatic conditions to prevent this race from 

 populating Africa as it has peopled North America. 

 And those portions of Africa which are unfavorable 

 to Anglo-Saxon life are less extensive than was once 

 supposed. The Dutch Boers, after two centuries of life 

 there, are as hardy as any race on earth. The Anglo- 

 Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse — 

 Canada, South Africa, and India — and, through several 

 generations, has preserved his essential race characteris- 

 tics. He is not, of course, sujoerior to climatic in- 

 fluences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to 

 retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races 

 already enfeebled. Thus, in what Dr. Bushnell calls 

 " the out-populating power of the Christian stock," may 

 be found God's final and complete solution of the dark 

 problem of heathenism among many inferior peoples. 



Some of the stronger races, doubtless, may be able to 



