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while in every profession the tendency is rapidly 

 growing to have at the head of affairs those who have 

 been through the mill from the very bottom. But, 

 one would ask, how far has the curriculum afforded 

 by our great public schools been altered to meet this 

 change ? In the main hardly a jot, and it is almost a 

 truism to say that an ordinary grammar school educa- 

 tion fits a boy for the struggle of life better than six 

 years at Eton. Here, then, we see turned out year by 

 year a large and ever-increasing class, containing in 

 many ways the very cream of our manhood, for which 

 there is at home an ever-decreasing demand, and 

 which, moreover, we find to our dismay our oldest and 

 finest Colonies do not appreciate. 



Luckily, the world is large and opportunities are 

 great, and there still remain vast tracts of country 

 where what are held to be the very faults of his 

 education will prove to be valuable assets. Of such 

 countries, second to none rank the Highlands of 

 British East Africa. And why? Because it is, I 

 venture to affirm, in the face of inevitable criticism, 

 essentially an overseer's country. In saying this I 

 have no wish whatever to deter any class of skilled 

 labour from entering the country. On the contrary, I 

 doubt if there is any country in the world where the 

 skilled workman or mechanic is more sure of a good 

 living. We have here a great stretch of splendidly 

 healthy country. There is thereon a large and rapidly 

 increasing native population, who always have done 

 and always will do the actual manual labour connected 

 with a farm. Most of these natives are moderately 

 lazy, barely moderately honest, and decidedly intelli- 

 gent. With a good master they form distinctly good 

 servants ; and I think that undoubtedly the best 



