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Christian missionaries have broken the hard ground, 
and European (not Belgian) powers have, following in 
their steps, begun to lay the foundations of government. 
Africa is like a chronic invalid, on whom almost every 
quack, as well as every physician of established reputa- 
tion, has tried his nostrums in vain. She has furnished 
gold for a good part of the Eastern world in the past, and 
for the Northern in the present, and provided slaves for 
all the world from time out of mind, and still she breeds 
her dark myriads. Still they clash among themselves 
in unrecorded wars, and slaughter and enslave each other. 
They speak literally in hundreds of different tongues, 
and as Job said long ago they have no “‘Daysman” to 
stand between them, no interpreter to each other or to the 
outside world. Pestilence and famine, unchecked, un- 
relieved, have swept away whole nations at a time. The 
strong of the earth have enslaved and in vast regions still 
enslave and slaughter them at will, while of themselves 
no leader, no teacher, no governor arises to bring them 
order; such has been Africa’s fate for unrecorded ages. 
It is in great part her fate to-day. Can any man with a 
heart in his bosom deny her and her many children pity 
and help? 
The East African is not a man, he is a child, and a 
child’s education and discipline is what he needs. Eng- 
land’s coming has wrought already one profound change 
in his environment. It has put a stop to the constant 
blood-letting that drained the land of men. War, not 
between tribe and tribe only, but between petty chiefs 
and even insignificant villages, went on all over unoc- 
cupied Africa till England or German occupation stopped it. 
Sir Charles Eliot in his admirable work on East Africa 
has stated with substantial truth what England has ac- 
complished, although he makes no sufficient mention of 
what German rule has also achieved. He says, ‘“‘ England 
