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shipping, much of this coast-land has easier communication with India 
than with its own continental interior. Several British possessions in 
the parts of Africa adjacent to the Indian Ocean are in the Intermediate 
Position between the principal homelands of the black peoples and the 
overflowing population of India, and nowhere has the responsibility of 
our Intermediate Position called for more careful examination of the 
rights and interests of competing coloured races. The decision with 
reference to Kenya which has just been given by the home Government 
recognises the main physical regions in the coloured world as political 
divisions of the Empire within which the established races have special 
rights. 
The Union of South Africa is the racial home of white men and of 
the more numerous coloured people who are indigenous io the country. 
It is, therefore, largely a land of white overseers and coloured labour, 
but here, as in the other Britains beyond the seas, there is an opposition 
to the introduction of coloured blood into white families which is not 
met with where Latin races are similarly situated. The Dutch families 
are at one with those of British stock in the maintenance of this racial 
Barrier. 
From the foregoing facts it is clear that the British people, Metro- 
politan and Colonial,* are in a greater degree than any other nation the 
doorkeepers of the world in respect of economic, strategic, and racial 
communications. 
Part II.—The Consolidation of the Position. 
The consolidation of the position which the British Nation has won 
turns upon the future of colonisation within the Empire, We must 
therefore compare the number of the Metropolitan and Colonial British 
with that of other peoples within and without the Empire, and take 
account of the relation between the present population of the world 
and the area of its empty lands. The British Empire comprises the 
fourth part of mankind, but the ratio of white to coloured people 
in the Empire is only about one to six. The former are mostly of 
British stock, and belong to the Christian world. The latter are of 
many stocks, differing physically from each other as much as from the 
white people, and belonging to diverse religions. Their population is 
steadily increasing under British rule, and some of them have recently 
made advances in political organisation and industrial efficiency. Conse- 
quently, if the Empire is to be guided by the British, the numbers of our 
race must also increase. There is, however, a school of thought which 
considers that if our ideals of ethics and efficiency are once accepted 
by the coloured peoples, the racial complexion of the Empire will be 
unimportant, as public affairs will be regulated by our principles. This 
point of view, which may be termed in a general sense the missionary 
standpoint, does not take account of the contingency that British ideals 
implanted in coloured stock may receive alien development in future 
* The introduction of the term ‘Dominion’ served to suggest emancipation 
from the Colonial Office, but the word Colonial as descriptive of a people has 
permanent historical value and therefore should not be allowed to lapse. 
