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while in the country that I had left there were at least 

 three times more inhabitants than it could find food for. 

 I then asked if it would not be a grateful task for the then 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, I think, was Mr Robert 

 Lowe, to obtain from Parliament a grant to enable the poor 

 of Great Britain to visit the countries which public-spirited 

 statesmen of other days had acquired for them, and to 

 assist them in settling there. When I had finished the 

 same answer came from all : " Why, that is just what 

 Sir George Grey always advocated and tried his best to 

 bring about." Sir George Grey's name occupies a very high 

 place on the roll of Colonial Governors, yet his efforts on 

 this occasion met with no success. 



It is advantageous to the Dominions to send a certain 

 number of their young men to the English Universities, and 

 it is an advantage to these Universities to receive them. But 

 the suitable return for this is not the sending of young men 

 from the English schools to study at Australian or Canadian 

 Universities, or of Englishmen who have taken their degrees 

 at their own University to the Dominions for some unde- 

 fined purpose. The Dominions do not require University 

 men, nor would University men as a rule benefit much by 

 Colonial experience. What the Dominions do want is young 

 men and young women, strong in body and sound in mind, 

 and with their lives before them. If they have received the 

 average education which the children in all countries receive 

 nowadays, and if their nature is such that whatever they take 

 in hand they do it with their might, then nothing can stand 

 in the way of their success. 



According to my recollection of the spirit, if not of 

 the terms, of Mr Rhodes's bequests in connection with the 

 University of Oxford, they were intended, in due time, to 

 have an educative effect on that University, rather than on 

 the young men for whom he provided the means to attend 

 it. In imposing on the members of the teaching staff the 

 duty of carrying further the education of young men who 

 had been brought forward in the schools of their own country 

 to the point when they had acquired the qualifications for 



