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6. Attempts to leap over these consecutive steps of culture, or to 

 substitute progress in one category for that in another, ignoring the 

 intermediate ones, have been fatal in several ways: i. They have 

 presented a discouraging chasm between the starting point and that 

 to be reached. 2. The transition has made unnatural and fre- 

 quently fatal strains upon the organism, both in its physical and 

 psychical constitution. 3. If by reason of mixed blood or extra- 

 ordinary natural gifts the subject be forced to the status of the 

 higher race, he is still ostracised. He cannot compete with the 

 dominant race against capital, inherited proclivities, and racial 

 prejudice. On returning to his own people he is spurned for his 

 ignorance of the old paths, and is unable to induce his people 

 to don the new fashions. The experience of nearly all authors 

 whom I have consulted is that these highly stimulated savages either 

 perish miserably or become lazaroni among their own people or the 

 dominant race. 



7. In conclusion, it is strongly insisted on that the only valuable 

 education to a lower race is that which enables the subjects to 

 develop their highest energies and intelligence among those where 

 their lives are to be passed. In its true and widest sense education 

 is not confined to school instruction. It embraces all that changes 

 in the presence of higher culture. It cannot be too strongly 

 insisted upon that functions vary easier than structure. Just as it 

 is difficult to change the structure of a tree, which nevertheless we 

 may use for fruit, for shade, for ornament, or for timber, almost 

 indifferently; or the structure of a horse which the farmer may 

 employ almost equally in the thousand and one operations of his 

 craft ; so is it with this wonderful organism called society. Func- 

 tions may change many times in the life of an individual, but the 

 edifice of the body politic, the family, and the church, can be 

 reconstructed only with the greatest wisdom and patience. 



President Powell remarked relative to the efforts described by 

 Prof. Mason, which had been and were being made to educate the 

 Indians in special schools and institutions for the purpose, situated 



