34 MEANS TO PROMOTE CIVILIZATION. 



include much more than is implied in the usual picture of a mis- 

 sionary, namely, a man going about with a Bible under his arm. 

 The promotion of commerce ought to be specially attended to, as 

 this, more speedily than any thing else, demolishes that sense of 

 isolation which heathenism engenders, and makes the tribes feel 

 themselves mutually dependent on, and mutually beneficial to each 

 other. With a view to this, the missionaries at Kuruman got per- 

 mission from the government for a trader to reside at the station, 

 and a considerable trade has been the result ; the trader himself 

 has become rich enough to retire with a competence. Those laws 

 which still prevent free commercial intercourse among the civil- 

 ized nations seem to be nothing else but the remains of our own 

 heathenism. My observations on this subject make me extremely 

 desirous to promote the preparation of the raw materials of Euro- 

 pean manufactures in Africa, for by that means we may not only 

 put a stop to the slave-trade, but introduce the negro family into 

 the body corporate of nations, no one member of which can suffer 

 without the others suffering with it. Success in this, in both 

 Eastern and Western Africa, would lead, in the course of time, 

 to a much larger diffusion of the blessings of civilization than 

 efforts exclusively spiritual and educational confined to any one 

 small tribe. These, however, it would of course be extremely 

 desirable to carry on at the same time at large central and healthy 

 stations, for neither civilization nor Christianity can be promoted 

 alone. In fact, they are inseparable. 



