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“ situation, possessions, habitations, and clothing.” 
They formed always outside their faith the justest 
estimate of their black fellow-creatures. I cannot 
too often repeat Father Merolla’s dictum, “The 
reader may perceive that the negroes are both a 
malicious and subtle people that spend the most 
part of their time in circumventing and deceiving.” 
Nor has spiritual despotism been confined to 
the Catholic missions in West Africa : certain 
John Knoxes in the Old Calabar River have 
repeated, especially in the case of the king “ young 
Eyo,” whom they excluded from communion, all 
the abuses and the errors of judgment of the 
seventeenth century with the modifications of the 
nineteenth. And we must not readily endorse 
Dr. Livingstone’s professional opinion. “ In view 
of the desolate condition of this fine missionary 
field, it is more than probable that the presence of 
a few Protestants would soon provoke the priests, 
if not to love, to good works.” Such is not the his¬ 
tory of our propagandism about the Cape of 
Good Hope. Dr. Gustav Fritsch (“The Natives 
of South Africa,” 1872), thus speaks of the mis¬ 
sionary Livingstone, who must not be confounded 
with the great explorer Livingstone : “ A man who 
is borne onward by religious enthusiasm and a 
glowing ambition, without our being able to say 
which of these two levers works more powerfully 
in his soul. Certain it is that he endured more 
