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THE TWO EACES WHICH PEOPLED POLYNESIA. 
lower classes, those only who remain continue to have their 
intellect expanded. The children of the poor are as natu- 
rally lively, witty and shrewd, as those of the rich, but as 
they grow up, when the treatment of each changes, then 
also the mental difference becomes more apparent ; still 
with all these disadvantages the Negro and Maori will bear 
comparison with many who have not been subjected to them. 
Sir S. Baker also bears testimony to their skill : “ They 
possessed the art of smelting iron, and although having only 
a stone for an anvil, another for a hammer, and a cleft stick 
for a pair of tongs, he had seen, a rude shirt of mail made 
for the chief by the native blacksmith.” Surely, with such 
imperfect means, it would puzzle many of our artificers to 
hammer out anything of the kind. So with the Maori, the 
natural powers of his intellect are seen in the facility with 
which he effects all he needs. 
Let each section of the human family possess similar means 
of instruction, and the results will be much the same. Even 
in Australia the native children at the Wellington Valley 
mission station could read a chapter of the English Testament 
without foreign accent, and answer as many questions as 
children in general would do in our Sunday schools ; and 
Samuel Crowther, the once ignorant and degraded African 
slave, by education, has become the Christian gentleman and 
scholar, and is now a highly useful and esteemed bishop, 
labouring in the wilds of Africa, to raise his benighted 
countrymen by the same means he rose himself. 
A WELSH CORACLE. 
