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life and that of one's descendants, is repulsive in the extreme. 

 The recognition of this aversion is shown nowadays after a 

 conquest of territory. The conquering nation hastens to do 

 either of two things, bringing the inhabitants of the annexed 

 country into the species, by compelling the younger generation 

 to use the conqueror's language, and by favouring an emigra- 

 tion of country-people into the new lands, as Germany did in 

 Alsace and Lorrain, or by giving them self-rule at once, as 

 England did with the Transvaal and the Orange-Free-States 

 republic. 



If we have sufficient imagination, we may try to imgine our- 

 selves in the place of a species of dogs in a world, where dogs 

 arranged things to their taste and advantage. If we do so, we 

 see that to an Irish terrier it must be extremely repulsive to 

 have his affairs regulated by a group of collies, and reversely, 

 that a collie would like to settle the matters of his state with 

 a committee of other collies, and would be extremely reluctant 

 to have some terriers, whose views on such very important 

 subjects as rats and sheep are so very unlike his own, sit in 

 judgment upon him and his race. 



We do not believe, that it is very common for people to want 

 to arrange matters for those, who are obviously not- of their 

 species. The missionary spirit, we hope and believe, is as much 

 an aberration from normal as the genius for inventing a new 

 dance. Those colonizing coimtries who are experienced, know 

 better than to interfere very much with the customs and laws 

 of the people they dominate, so long as these do not interfere 

 with the happiness of the other groups. The English are con- 

 tent to let the Mahommedans in Ceylon be Mahommedans, and 

 eat sheep instead of pigs, and let the Chinese eat both, and 

 the Buddhists neither. They only interfere, when the Buddhists 

 are going to knock the Mahommedans on the head for eating 

 sheep, and start to loot their shops, as they were doing, when 

 we were there. The governing colonizing people simply 

 arrange things in as far as they materially affect the 

 well-doing of their own class, and they will allow the Young 



