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supplement the records of the development of railways, 

 thirty years ago, with a statement of my reasons for 

 holding that the enthusiasm, which it excited then, can 

 hardly be justified now. on striking a balance. 



Only one side of the account between civilisation 

 and the world stated in the Lecture .... 20 



termination of the Buffalo part of price paid for 

 first transcontinental railway in North America. 1 \ 

 termination on vastly larger scale price of civilisation 

 of African continent . . . . . . . 2 i 



Possibility of survival of black man in Africa, but 

 probable price, acceptance of slavery . . . . 24 



Two extracts from Gordon Cumming's book, Five 

 "Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa , 

 ,'iven to show the exuberance and grandeur of life which 

 existed in 1850 ........ 23 



Summary of important dates in the history of the 

 extinction of the great African fauna all comprised in 

 last hundred years . . . . . . . 24 



Parallelism between the dates of extinction of the 

 great African fauna and the development of steam 

 propulsion on sea and land ...... 25 



Members of "Challenger" Expedition probably the 

 last of our race to come into contact with the primitive 

 savage, when that ship visited New Guinea in 1875. 



Final '-tate of the world no longer in doubt. Domi- 

 nation of a White Race; and what that means . . 26 



Comparison of rapidity of the extinction of such a 

 fauna with slowness of its generation and develop- 

 ment. 



The extermination ot this tauna would have been 

 prevented il the steam-engine had not been invented 



Possibl' ! now, if the steam-engine 



had been invented a thousand years ago ... 27 



kiluhtv that nothing but the absence of the 

 f.u ultv of spee< h \\oulil have prevented the invention 

 -t the strain-engine l>\ man. 



i eaton taaghl i-\ tfo 



