SOUTHERN AFRICA. i6i 
men, life would be a constant succession of make-shifts and 
substitutions. 
The good effects resulting from such measures are not to 
be expected as the work of a day, but they are such as might, 
in time, be brought about. It would not, however, be at- 
tended with much difficulty to bring the people closer to- 
gether, and to furnish them with the means of suitable edu- 
cation for their children ; to open them new markets for their 
produce, and, by frequent intercourse with one another, 
to make them feel the comforts and the conveniencies of social 
life. Whether the Dutch will be able to succeed in doins: 
this, or whether they will give themselves the trouble of 
making the experiment, is doubtful, but when it shall again 
become a British settlement, these, or similar regulations, 
would be well deserving the attention of Government. 
But, above all, the establishment of a proper public school 
in the capital, with masters from Europe qualified to under- 
take the different departments of literature, demands the first 
attention of the Government, whether it be Dutch or Enslish. 
Tor as long as the fountain-head is suffered to remain troubled 
and muddy, the attempt v/ould be vain to purify the streams 
that issue from it. It is painful to see so great a number of 
promising young men as are to be found in Cape Town, en- 
tirely ruined for want of a suitable, education. The mind of 
a boy of fourteen cannot be supposed to remain in a state of 
inactivity, and if not employed in laying up a stock of useful 
knowledge, the chances are it will imbibe a taste for all the 
vices with which it is surrounded, and of which the catalogue 
in this colony is by no means deficient. 
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