170 GENEKAL SIR CHAELES WASREN, G.C.M.G., F.E.S., ON 



tales and legends are based on the fundamental idea that your 

 sin will find you out. 



Amongst the Israelites of old, everything in nature was 

 endowed with some super life, and sprites and demons and jinn 

 abounded in all deserted places ; and above all was the majesty 

 of the Almighty riding on the whirlwind, controlling the 

 tempest, with the winds and floods obeying Him : " Wind and 

 storm obeying His word." 



(Ij) of Civilization of the Present. 



The present war is teaching us that civilization without the- 

 fear of God is a danger to nations. 



(c) Environment. 



The effect of environment is well seen in the influence on 

 the Israelites of the adjoining and surrounding heathen. 



(3) TeadsIXG— 

 (a) Amongst Savage Races or Primitive People. 



Amongst savage races there may be some whose intellects 

 are quite as keen as those of the highest in Europe, whilst on 

 the other hand there are others who have only the intellects of 

 children. 



Thus individuals may be trained to a high pitch of excellence, 

 but not so the race itself. Here lies the difficulty with native 

 tribes in South Africa. A tribe cannot receive the same laws 

 as white men, yet members of the tribe may be better educated 

 and more highly civilized than the average white man. 



In a surveyor's office in South Africa I have seen blanket 

 Kaffirs working out abstruse mathematical problems, and I 

 ha^'e conversed all day with a Kaffir guide from Lovedale 

 College, and failed to find any difference between his mind and 

 that of a European. 



If the children of savage races are taken in hand early 

 enough, they will form habits which are lasting. 



(b) Amongst Civilized Peaces. 



Xo more striking instance in all history can be cited than 

 the training of our nation for war since 1914, and only one 

 reason can be given for the thoroughness and celerity with 

 which it has been carried out, and that is that the hearts of all 

 were in the job. 



