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an unlimited supply of what we call the Anglo- 

 Saxon race is the best remedy for all the evils 

 of the world. Well, without wishing to be 

 needlessly unpatriotic, I do not think the un- 

 limited Anglo-Saxon is an altogether unmiti- 

 gated blessing. The filibuster, the mercantile 

 adventurer and the missionary have not been 

 so perfectly successful between them in dealing 

 with the problem of the lower races ; for the 

 mere disappearance of lower races before the 

 rum supplied by the trader and the clothes en- 

 joined by the missionary (to the great profit of 

 the Lancashire manufacturer) is not quite a 

 satisfactory solution. What has been already 

 said about the transmission of a type of culture, 

 irrespective of the continuity of the race that 

 first developed it, seems to help one here. We 

 need have less doubt of the excellence of our 

 lans'uao'e and of our literature and of some of 

 our institutions than of the supreme excellence 

 of our race : and there is nothing to prevent 

 distant tribes and nations regarding Europe, 

 and Britain not least, as the school or university 

 to which they shall send their most promising- 

 youth in order to adopt just as much of our 

 civilisation as suits them, so that they may 



