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pressed will hardly get worse terms from a 

 new master. That is why no strong and 

 permanent civilization can be built upon 

 slave labour, why an inferior race doing 

 menial labour for a superior race can give 

 no stable community ; that is why we shall 

 never have a healthy social state in South 

 Africa until the white man replaces the dark 

 in the fields and in the mines, and the Kaffir 

 is pushed back towards the equator. The 

 nation organized for the struggle must be a 

 homogeneous whole, not a mixture of superior 

 and inferior races. For this reason every 

 new land we colonize with white men is a 

 source of strength ; every land of coloured 

 men we simply rule may be needful as a 

 source of food and mineral wealth, but it is 

 not an element of stability in our community, 

 and must ever be regarded with grave anxiety 

 by our statesmen. 



This need for homogeneity in a nation 

 may be pushed further. We must not have 

 class differences and wealth differences and 

 education differences so great within the com- 

 munity that we lose the sense of common 

 interest, and feel only the pressure of the 



