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to the fund for the repayment of initial capital in 

 whatever form of advance it was obtained. Nothing 

 can cancel the grace of giving, none can repay an 

 act of generosity, but the law " Unto Caesar the 

 things that are Caesar's " is only second to its better 

 half. Besides, the philanthropic fund of the world 

 is wanted in so many different corners of the world, 

 and it should be kept moving. 



At present the nearest approach to such a pro- 

 position in action is Mr. Kingsley Fairbridge's 

 experiment in Western Australia, which, of course, 

 for many years must mainly depend on philan- 

 thropic contributions. Mr. Fairbridge has been 

 aptly named a practical ideaHst. On a reclaimed 

 fruit-farm he makes home for a certain number 

 of destitute and forsaken children and instructs 

 them in mental culture and manual labour until 

 they reach the age of sixteen. The experiment is 

 only in the second year of its development. The 

 increase from the produce of the land has risen from 

 less than ^20 to nearly ^^80 in its first year, and 

 a fund is to be established in connexion with the 

 work to provide boys and girls with a dot towards 

 their first start on leaving home. Mr. Fairbridge 

 is a Rhodes scholar hailing from South Africa. 

 He conceived the idea during his sojourn at Exeter 

 College, Oxford, and it is significant that he has 

 planted it, not in the wonderful country of his 

 birth, not in the nearer and matchless country of 

 Canada, but far off in Western Australia, where 

 women are honoured in deed as well as in word, 

 where a voice is given them in the selection of their 

 law-makers, and the opportunity of the land-grant 

 is open to them. 



