28 MEANS TO PROMOTE CIVILIZATION. Chap. I. 



Sending the Gospel to the heathen must, if this view be correct, 

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

 missionary, 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 anything else, demolishes that 

 sense of isolation which heathenism engenders, and makes the 

 tribes feel themselves mutually dependent on, and mutually bene- 

 ficial to, each other. With a view to this the missionaries at 

 Kuruman got permission 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 com- 

 petence. Those laws which still prevent free commercial inter- 

 course among the civilized 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 European manufactures in Africa, for by that 

 means we may not only put a stop to the slave-trade, but intro- 

 duce 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 in- 

 separable. 



