the Boers paying 7-1/2, and the Uitlanders 89-1/2.  The natives have, therefore, actually been helping to educate the Boer children.  “In 1896,” says Mr. Phillips, “only L650 was granted to the schools of those who paid nine-tenths of the revenue, L63,000 being spent upon the Boer Schools.  In other words, the Uitlander child gets 1s. 10d., the Boer child L8 6s. 1d.  The Uitlander pays L7 per head for the education of every Boer child, and he has to provide in addition for the education of his own children.”

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The following extract is from a more general point of view, but one which it is unphilosophical to overlook.

The Christian Age reproduces a communication from an American gentleman residing in the Transvaal to the New York Independent.

“The Boers,” Mr. Dunn says, “are, as a race—­with, of course, individual exceptions—­an extraordinary instance of an arrested civilisation, the date of stoppage being somewhere about the conclusion of the seventeenth century.  But they have not even stood still at that point.  They have distinctly and dangerously degenerated even from the general standard of civilisation existing when Jan van Riebeck hoisted the flag of the Dutch East India Company at Cape Point.  The great cardinal fact in connection with the Uitlander population is that, owing to their numbers and activity, they have brought in their train an influx of new wealth into the Transvaal of truly colossal dimensions.  Thus, to sum up the distinctive and divergent characteristics of the two classes into which the population of the South African Republic is divided—­the Boers, or old population, are conservative, ignorant, stagnant, and a minority; the Uitlanders, or new population, are progressive, full of enterprise, energy and work, and constitute a large majority of the total number of inhabitants.

“It has so happened, therefore, that the Boers, as the ruling and dominant class, have hopelessly failed to master or comprehend the new conditions with which they have been called upon to deal.  They have not, as a body, shown either capacity or desire to treat the new developments with even a remote appreciation of their inherent value and inevitable trend.  The Boer has simply set his back against the floodgates, apparently oblivious or indifferent to the fact that the hugely accumulating forces behind must one day burst every barrier he may choose to set up.  That is the whole Transvaal situation in a sentence.

“It is necessary to point out, further, that this blind and dogged determination on the part of the Boers to ‘stop the clock’ affects not merely the Transvaal; it is vitally and perniciously affecting the whole of South Africa.  But for the obstructiveness and obscurantism of the Transvaal Boers, the rate of progress and development which would characterise the whole South African continent would be unparalleled in the history of any other country.  The reactionary policy of the Transvaal is the one spoke in the wheel.  It must therefore be removed in the name of humanity and civilisation.”