354 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



generation from savagery cannot be expected to 

 show the truthfulness, honesty, unselfishness, and 

 purity which, as we know, always and invariably 

 characterise European youths who have been 

 brought up in Christian teaching, and represent in 

 their instincts about twenty centuries of hereditary 

 _ civilisation. 



No human being can estimate or criticise the 

 spiritual work that is carried on in any mission. 

 The mental and manual work is so obviously good 

 that no sane person can have anything but praise 

 to give. 



I do not myself think that such subjects as Latin, 

 Greek, Hebrew, mathematics, moral philosophy, 

 and civilisation, which do (or did) actually form 

 the curriculum at one mission station, should be 

 taught to natives ; but I do not pretend to be a 

 judge of these matters. 



I have known what really savage life means. 

 I have also had the opportunity of seeing the work 

 of such bodies as the London Missionary Society, 

 the Free and Established Church of Scotland, and 

 the Universities Mission. I cannot speak in a 

 sufficiently calm and reasonable manner of the 

 good that they do. 



In some of them there is, perhaps, a tendency 

 to treat the natives too much as the equal of 

 the white man (which they can never be), and, 

 perhaps, not fully to realise the advantage of train- 

 ing in habits of hard work, but in spite of such 



