The difficulties in the way are many and serious, but if we of the power-holding race remain true to the great principles of justice and fairness which have guided our forefathers in their upward path we shall not go astray.  So long as we remember the lesson of history voiced in the saying of the Romans “As many slaves so many enemies” we shall refrain from the means of repression which have always reacted adversely on the repressors; we shall realise that we cannot set artificial barriers in the way of the civilised Native if he proves that he has the capacity for going higher and the will to try, and we shall learn to treat him, not as a slave, nor as a child, nor yet as a brother in the house, but as a man.  The Natives can in fairness demand no more, the whites can in fairness yield no less.

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FOOTNOTES

[1] Article on Anthropology in Nelson’s Encyclopaedia.  The “gnathic index” is said to show that Europeans and Bushmen are orthognathous.

[2] “Man and Woman” by Havelock Ellis.

[3] “The Mind of Primitive Man” by Franz Boas.

[4] “Children of the Slaves” by Stephen Graham.

[5] “Anthropological Notes on Bantu Natives from Portuguese East Africa” by C.D.  Maynard, F.R.C.S.E., Statistician and Clinician to the South African Institute for Medical Research, and G.A.  Turner, M.B., B.Ch., Aberdeen D.P.H., Medical Officer to the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association.

[6] “The Growth of the Brain” by H.H.  Donaldson, Professor of Neurology in the University of Chicago.

[7] “The Mind of Primitive Man” by Franz Boas.

[8] “The Antiquity of Man” by Arthur Keith, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S.

[9] “Ancient Hunters” by W.J.  Sollas, D.De., LL.D., Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in the University of Oxford.

[10] “Anthropology” by R.R.  Marett.

[11] “The Antiquity of Man” by Arthur Keith, M.D.

[12] “Initiative in Evolution” by Walter Kidd, M.D., F.R.S.E.

[13] “The Antiquity of Man” by Arthur Keith, M.D.

[14] “The Growth of the Brain” by H.H.  Donaldson.

[15] “Social Environment and Moral Progress” by Alfred Russell Wallace, O.M., D.C.L., Oxon.

[16] “The Varieties of Human Speech” by Edward Sapier, in Smithsonian Institute Report for 1912.

[17] “730 Sechuana Proverbs” by Solomon T. Plaatje.

[18] “Throwing the Bones” is the usual form of divination practised by the Natives in Rhodesia.

[19] “What is Civilisation.”  Article by Professor W.M.  Flinders Petrie, in the Contemporary Review for January, 1921.

[20] “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli.

[21] “Children of the Slaves” by Stephen Graham.

[22] Der Christliche Pilger of 9th May, 1920, and Volklinger Nachrichten of 14th June, 1920.