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ery, such as the world has never seen. Who can fail to be 

 interested in the results of this conflict ? We know that Africa 

 is capable of the very highest civilization, for it was the birth- 

 place of all civilization. To it we are indebted for the origin of 

 all our arts and sciences, and it possesses to-day the most won- 

 dei'ful works of man. Let us hope that Africa, whose morning 

 was so bright, and whose night has been so dark, will yet live 

 to see the light of another and higher civilization. 



