The South-African crisis - pagina 25

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

civilized

men, but

haunts of the ''noble savage"

in the

whose simple and nomadic and

vogue,

the races

life

had become the subject

Robinson Crusoe's

of idyllic interest.

form

ever}'

21

CEISIS.

man

Friday was

oppression of native

of

beyond the sea was regarded as high treason

against

humanity.

Thus the Deists

in the political

world, through their Aborigines societies, assumed the attitude

of the

man's protectors, while in the

black

religious

sphere

societies

gave themselves

The occupation favourable

the

of

the

occasion

Hottentot was the they had made their held

him

in

by their Missionary

Christians

Cape

offered

realising

for

veritable idol,

bondage

to be his benefactors.

out

them the

their

child

this

opinion

whom

and therefore the Boer who

loomed

before

imagination as the marked enemy of the

That

The

ideals.

of nature

first

their

race.

is

now

Mr. Theal

tells

was without foundation

admitted by Englishmen themselves.

heated

human

us "the Aborigines of South Africa were savages of a very

low type, to the eye of an European the most unattractive in any part of the world, living in idleness

They pitilessly massacred the Bushmen to be massacred by them in their turn, and both alike were constantly exposed to the continual butcheries of the Bantus. As they w^ere but a very small number in the midst of these savage tribes the Boers were compelled to take effective measures for safeguarding their families, and they introduced a system of slavery, copied, it is true, from the system adopted by the English in their American Colonies, but greatly modified: "The testimony of every one, and

filthiness undescribable".

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