70 TlMEHRI, 
am proud to be the least, the skill and self-reliance to 
undertake successfully the cutting up of the cane, and 
are the sugar-makers and chemists able to take the slices 
from us and extract the dry sugar from them ? or shall 
we all, each in his own profession, shrink from the task 
as being too difficult for us? 
If this our colony adopts this rational and scientific 
system, her welfare will be assured, and that bugbear 
the beet-root will lose all its terrors. The beet will 
never again make a stride ahead of us as it has done ; for 
the chemists and engineers of France and Germany, all 
honour to them say I, have attained finality in their in- 
dustry. Let us imitate them. Guiana bears a proud 
motto round her emblem, ' Damns petimusque vicissim ' 
says her scroll. Let her act worthily of it and she will 
succeed ; if not, let her erase those noble words and write 
instead — * Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.' 
For be assured that if she does not seek, she will soon 
have nothing to give. And if, seeing better things and 
approving them, she chooses to follow worse ; if she 
sits helplessly by the side of her mills, idly railing at the 
sugar bounties, attributing the decline of her prosperity 
to every cause but the right one ; crying for help instead 
of helping herself ; refusing to grasp the good that is 
within her reach ; then will she deserve the ruin which 
will inevitably overtake her. 
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