Perhaps it may be wrong so to hint it, but,
judging from indications in his own book, our author himself would
have been liable in those days to enthralment by the piquant charms
that proved irresistible to so many of his brother-Europeans. It is
almost superfluous to repeat that the skin-discriminating policy
induced as regards the coloured subjects of the Queen since the [41]
abolition of slavery did not, and could not, operate when coloured
and white stood on the same high level as slave-owners and ruling
potentates in the Colonies. Of course, when the administrative power
passed entirely into the hands of British officials, their colonial
compatriots coalesced with them, and found no loss in being in the
good books of the dominant personages.
In conclusion of our remarks upon the above extracts, it may be
stated that the blending of the races is not a burning question. "It
can keep," as Mr. Bright wittily said with regard to a subject of
similar urgency. Time and Nature might safely be left uninterfered
with to work out whatever social development of this kind is in store
for the world and its inhabitants.
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