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fife ; erefting of comfortable habitation^j and 
forming them into towns and viiiages, to- 
gether with all the ufeful arts may be taught 
them, and thefe neceffary avocations will 
employ their time, fecure their aitachment^ 
and eventually make chem ufeful members 
of a regular community. Thefe important 
^Rch may be fully accom^pliflied without 
confufing them with myfterious doftrines 
which they can never be fufliciently educat- 
ed to embrace or underPcand. Indeed the 
attempt, I am convinced, would be ineSeft- 
ual if not dangerous, and therefore I objeft 
to the eftablifhment or introduftion of any 
theological fyftem on the continent of Africa, 
I do not addrefs my fentiments on this 
occallon to any defcription of perfons, who 
from early habits, have been taught to view 
the moft important fubjefts through the 
dark mift of prejudice.— Were I to act oth- 
erwife, I mijift commence an endlefs warfare 
with the paffions^ and my intentions, howe- 
ver good, beliable to mifconception and re- 
proach. No man I believe, at this moment, 
entertains a more profound refped for thofe 
truths which are promulgated under the di- 
vine authority of the chriftian difpenfation 
than myfelf ; but as I earneftly wiHi the 
Cape of Good Hope may remain for ever an 
appendage to the Crown of England, I have 
been induced to offer my objeftions to fuch 
meafures as I thought would defeat fo glori- 
ous a purpofe, and, at the fame time to re- 
commend others that had a tendency to fe- 
