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... period of reconstruction and reshaping that the coming generation has to deal with , but because it is of essential importance and value to humanity on the highest grounds that the domin- ant European races should come to apprehend more ...
... period of reconstruction and reshaping that the coming generation has to deal with , but because it is of essential importance and value to humanity on the highest grounds that the domin- ant European races should come to apprehend more ...
Page xviii
... period of rest and change , soon fell victim to the lure of Africa , and seeking advice was told : " When you have made up your mind to go to West Africa , the very best thing you can do is to get it unmade again and go to Scotland ...
... period of rest and change , soon fell victim to the lure of Africa , and seeking advice was told : " When you have made up your mind to go to West Africa , the very best thing you can do is to get it unmade again and go to Scotland ...
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... period upon period , gesture following gesture , until both Chief and audience rock and sway under the magnetic influence of passionate yet dignified eloquence . What matters time ! -half - hour , an hour , an hour and a half , two ...
... period upon period , gesture following gesture , until both Chief and audience rock and sway under the magnetic influence of passionate yet dignified eloquence . What matters time ! -half - hour , an hour , an hour and a half , two ...
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... large powers of native government are retained by the native chiefs and Council . The period of reconstruction through which the British Commonwealth is now passing must in- · clude closer union with these territories . The millions.
... large powers of native government are retained by the native chiefs and Council . The period of reconstruction through which the British Commonwealth is now passing must in- · clude closer union with these territories . The millions.
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... period of her evolution , because controlling as she does the largest part of the population in the continent and being admittedly in advance of all other Governments , the experi- ence of the territories and practice of statesmen will ...
... period of her evolution , because controlling as she does the largest part of the population in the continent and being admittedly in advance of all other Governments , the experi- ence of the territories and practice of statesmen will ...
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Page 136 - ... claim on the Lippert concession. But it was held by the Judicial Committee that the concession did not give the concessionaire the right to use the land or take the usufruct (ie the income or fruits derived from it). If the Company was right, said Lord Sumner in delivering the opinion of the Committee, "it would follow that Herr Lippert was, or could become at pleasure, owner of the entire kingdom — for nothing is reserved in favour of the inhabitants — from the kraals of the King's wives...
Page 65 - Whoever intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of himself for any offence with which he is charged or of which he has been convicted...
Page 155 - And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart...
Page 131 - All native lands, and all rights over the same, are hereby declared to be under the control and subject to the disposition of the Governor, and shall be held and administered for the use and common benefit of the natives: and no title to the occupation and use of any such lands shall be valid without the consent of the Governor.
Page 65 - ... be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three months.
Page 95 - Above all things we must confidently expect, as an indispensable condition of the proposed arrangement, that the colonial laws and their administration will be such that Indian settlers, who have completed the terms of service to which they agreed, as the return for the expense of bringing them to the Colonies, will be...
Page 64 - head of a house " seems to be more than a. paterfamilias, a "house" being defined as "a group of persons subject by native law and custom to the control, authority, and rule of a chief known as a head of a house.
Page 96 - Indian settlers who have completed the terms of service to which they agreed as the return for the expense of bringing them to the Colonies will be in all respects free men, with privileges no whit inferior to those of any other class of Her Majesty's subjects resident in the Colonies.
Page 91 - The path is strewn with dead men's bones. You see the white thigh-bones lying in front of your feet, and at one side, among the undergrowth, you find the skull. These are the skeletons of slaves who have been unable to keep up with the march, and so were murdered or left to die.
Page 8 - The theory that the South African natives are hopelessly indolent may be dismissed," observed the authors of the South African Native Affairs Commission of 1905, "as not being in accordance with the facts.