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20. The natives of Tasmania. 



21. The Maoris of New Zealand. 



22. The aborigines of New Caledonia. 



23. The natives of the Marianne or Ladrone (Thieves' or 

 Lazarus) Islands, and of other South Sea or Oceanian 

 islands (Buchner), some of whose names, bestowed on them 

 by navigators, bear testimony to the theftuous propensities 

 of their inhabitants. 



These are all foreign, heathen, and coloured races 

 extra-European, and characterised by blackish, brownish, or 

 yellowish skins. But there are also 



e. European races even highly civilised Christian peoples, 

 boasting incessantly of their high state of religious and moral 

 culture, that possess in their very midst white savages, whose 

 intellectual and moral condition is quite as instructive as, 

 and infinitely more important than, that of remote primi- 

 tive races. I need only refer to some of our own country, 

 to wit 



24. The ' savages of North Devon,' as described by the 

 commissioner of the ' Daily Telegraph.' 



25. The labourers of the potteries and collieries of 

 central England, the dog-fighters and women-kickers of 

 Hanley and other villages of the ' Black Country ' in more 

 respects than one a country well named. 



26. The * gutter children' of the 'wilds of London,' 

 according to Hollingshead and so many others. 



27. The whole of the ' criminal class ' of our great cities. 

 These fellow-countrymen of our own voluntarily place 



themselves if indeed the possession of normal freedom of 

 will be granted them on a level with what it were a farce 

 to call, in contrast with such men, the 'lower' animals, when 

 they engage with bull-dogs in duels of the kind which 

 rendered Hanley famous in 1874. 



Among the psychical peculiarities of these our brother 

 men in Christian England are 



1. The absence of any religious sentiment (Elam). 



2. Want of the moral sense in the whole criminal class 

 (Despine). No appreciation of duty (Elam). 



3. Low general intelligence. 



