s live in the Transvaal.
They may not walk on the sidepaths, or trade even as small hucksters, or
hold land. Until two years ago there was no marriage law for the blacks,
and that which was then passed was so bad--a L3 fee being demanded for
every marriage, with many other difficulties placed in the way of
marriage--that the missionaries endeavoured to procure its abolition,
and to return to the old state of things. No help is given towards the
education of native children, though the natives pay 3 per cent. of the
revenue, 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 r