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while in every profession the tendency is rapidly 
growing to have at the head of affairs those who have 
been through the mill from the very bottom. But, 
one would ask, how far has the curriculum afforded 
by our great public schools been altered to meet this 
change? In the main hardly a jot, and it is almost a 
truism to say that an ordinary grammar school educa¬ 
tion fits a boy for the struggle of life better than six 
years at Eton. Here, then, we see turned out year by 
year a large and ever-increasing class, containing in 
many ways the very cream of our manhood, for which 
there is at home an ever-decreasing demand, and 
which, moreover, we find to our dismay our oldest and 
finest Colonies do not appreciate. 
Luckily, the world is large and opportunities are 
great, and there still remain vast tracts of country 
where what are held to be the very faults of his 
education will prove to be valuable assets. Of such 
countries, second to none rank the Highlands of 
British East Africa. And why ? Because it is, I 
venture to affirm, in the face of inevitable criticism, 
essentially an overseers country. In saying this I 
have no wish whatever to deter any class of skilled 
labour from entering the country. On the contrary, I 
doubt if there is any country in the world where the 
skilled workman or mechanic is more sure of a good 
living. We have here a great stretch of splendidly 
healthy country. There is thereon a large and rapidly 
increasing native population, who always have done 
and always will do the actual manual labour connected 
with a farm. Most of these natives are moderately 
lazy, barely moderately honest, and decidedly intelli¬ 
gent. With a good master they form distinctly good 
servants ; and I think that undoubtedly the best 
