INFLUENCE OF EUEOPE AND ASIA ON AFKICA. 593 



of the analytical mind of the white man. In Asia, on all these points 

 they tend to the homogeneous. In Europe, every day makes us more 

 and more heterogeneous. 



Thus compared with that of the Asiatic, it can not be denied that the 

 mind of the European is of the higher order. Moreover, though Comparison 

 our moral qualities are not equal to our intellectual, the man- J^Euro^ean 

 ner in which we act in the conditions in which we are placed intellect, 

 asserts our superiority even in that regard. The instances are many in 

 which we do not dare to cany our convictions into execution, and each 

 of these illustrates the inequality here set forth. To "be content with the 

 chances of things, to suffer the events of life uncomplainingly, is surely 

 not so worthy a character as to demand a reason, and to accept the con- 

 sequences of resistance. 



The intellectual superiority of the European over the Asiatic is strik- 

 ingly illustrated by their relative power over the African, who Th . 

 is confessedly, in this respect, beneath them both. To go no ive influence 

 farther back than the last ten centuries, both have, in their on Afnca - 

 special way, exerted their influence. Here and there, on the outskirts 

 of that great continent, the European has made a faint, but, at the best, 

 only a transitory impression : the Asiatic has pervaded it through and 

 through. Of the promising churches, which, in the early days of Chris- 

 tianity, fringed the northern coast, scarce any vestige now remains ; the 

 faith of Arabia has not only supplanted them, but is spreading even to- 

 ward the Cape of Good Hope, and this, as it would appear, spontaneous- 

 ly. On the other hand, the European, with that universal charity which 

 is his noblest attribute, has spared no exertions and no expense to dif- 

 fuse the blessings which have been conferred by Providence upon him ; 

 and yet it would seem to be in vain, though enforced by the great exam- 

 ple of his civilization and power. In this we see the affinity of the mind 

 of Africa with that of Asia, of which it is an exaggeration, and its incon- 

 gruity with that of Europe. It can not, in its present state, appreciate 

 our manner of thinking ; it can not embrace our conceptions of truth, but 

 delivers itself unresistingly to the dogmas of the East, with all their er- 

 rors of faith and all their imperfections of polity. * 



Since I have been drawn into a psychical comparison of the Asiatic 

 and European in the foregoing particulars, it may not be p ositionof 

 amiss to consider the two races in another important respect, women in Asia 

 the condition of their females. In the barbarous state, the a 

 woman is the slave of the man ; the Mohammedan makes her his toy, the 

 European his companion. The avarice of the former for beauty is re- 

 placed in the latter by an avarice for wealth. The treasures of the one 

 are placed in a harem ; those of the other are perhaps invested in the 

 public stocks. 



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