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''avcrago ncj^roes poMOSH too littl« intellect, wlfrfilinnw and wlf control to make it ponmibl*" fr)r 

 fchein to Husliiin tho burden of »ny r(wp<*cUibli! form of civiliiuition without a lun'i' m./iKiir.' ..i 

 txteriial Kuidiiiicunnd KupjKirt. Tlio C'liiniimaii in n Wing of another kind, who i 

 , remarkable aptitude for a hij^li material civilisation. He is se^-n to fli-- '■■■•'• •■ 

 ^wn country, where a tomj)orary dark age Ktill prevails, which hft« not 

 ace, tliouK" it hiw stunt<Kl the development of each meml>t«r of it, by tiir n^jm nit'ir. ■•mi'in Mt 



elTet<' Hvstem of classiciil education, which treats ori){inality as a Hocial crime' The 



Vnatural capacity of the Chinaman shows itself by the huccchh with which, n- 

 'timidity, ho ('ompeteH with stranj{ers, wherever he may reside. The Chines, 

 an extraordinary instinct for [H)litical and social organisation ; they contrive t. . . 

 selves a police and internal j^overninent, and tlieyj{iveno trouble to their ruin-. 

 are left to manage these matters for themselves." 



"The history of the world tells a tale of the continual displacement of population , ;. 



a worthier successor, and humanity gains thereby. Wo ourselves are no desoendanta of the 

 aborigines of Britain, and our colonists were invaders of the regions they now occupy aa 

 their lawful honi(>. Hut the countries into which the Anglo-Saxon race can lie tronsfused are 

 restricted to those where the climate is tempomt<'. The tropics are not for us to inhabit per- 

 manently ; the greater part of Africa is the heritage of a people differently constituU-d to our- 

 selves. On that continent, as elsewhere, one jK>pulation continually drives out another. We 

 note how Arab, Tuarick, i'Vllatah, Negroes of uncountwl varieties, Caffre and HolUfntot surge 

 and reel to and fro in the struggle for e.\islence. It is into this free fight among all pres«>nt that 

 T wish to .see a new comjH'litor introduci^ — namely the Chinaman. The gain would Ik- immense 

 to the whole civilised world if he were to outbreed and finally displace the negro, aa comp!'  '  

 as the latter has displacwi the aborigines of the West Indies. The magnitude of the gain i i\ 

 be partly estimated by making the converse supposition-— namely the loss that would ensue if 

 China were somehow to be depopulated and restocked by negroes." 



Whatever opinion we may hold of Galton's views on the Chinaman, 



there is no doubt tliat this passage marks not only his full acceptance of the 



Pdoctriiie of the survival of the titter race a.s applied to man, but further his 



lopinioii that civilised man could himself directly expedite the proce.'we.s of 



levolution. 



A few further memoirs having a bearing on geographical or allied topics 



nay be noted here. We have already referred to his views on maps. In 



-1865 the idea occurred to Galton that, as maps so conspicuously fail to give 



Ins the leading features of a mountainous country and are indeed so incapable 



[of representing crags and clitis successfully, a stereoscopic photograph of a 



Imodel would be of extreme value'. Indeed a coloured model on this plan 



with reproduction by colour photography might go a long way to satisfy 



Galton's craving for something more illustrative of the tloral and geological 



environment than an ordinary map can provide. He suggests what might be 



(lone in this way by photography of the models of the English Lakes at 



Keswick, of the Pyrenees at Luchon, and of the Alps at Berne, Zurich, 



[Lucerne and Geneva. With the assistance of Mr R. Cameron Galton he was 



Skble to obtain and exhibit stereoscopic photographs of the following models: 



(1) Island of St Paul in the Indian Ocean', from an Austrian bronze 



model. 



' Was this sentence a thrust at another race, and was Galton thinking of hta own bitter 

 experience? See Vol. i, pp. 12, 142. 



" "On Stereoscopic Maps taken from Mixlels of Mountainous Countries." Ji. Gttxj. .V.«-. 

 [Journal, 18G5, pp. 99-106. 



' Midway on Mercator's chart between Melbourne and Cape Town. 



p o II ft 



