al codes of sexual
morality on its members, especially its feminine members, and, naturally
enough, it is always very suspicious of their ability to observe these
codes, and is careful to allow them, so far as possible, no personal
responsibility in the matter. But a training in restraint, when carried
through a long series of generations, is the best preparation for freedom.
The law laid on the earlier generations, as old theology stated the
matter, has been the schoolmaster to bring the later generations to
Christ; or, as new science expresses exactly the same idea, the later
generations have become immunized and have finally acquired a certain
degree of protection against the virus which would have destroyed the
earlier generations.

The process by which a people acquires the sense of personal
responsibility is slow, and perhaps it cannot be adequately
acquired at all by races lacking a high grade of nervous
organization. This is especially the case as regards sexual
morality, and has often been illustrated on the contact of a
higher with a lower civilization. It has constantly happened that
missionaries--entirely against their own wishes, it need not be
said--by overthrowing the strict moral system they have found
established, and by substituting the freedom of European customs
among people entirely unprepared for such freedom, have exerted
the most disastrous effects on morality. This has been the case
among the formerly well-organized and highly moral Baganda of
Central Africa, as recorded in an official report by Colonel
Lambkin (_British Medical Journal_, Oct. 3, 1908).

As regards Polynesia, also, R.L. Stevenson, in his interesting
book, _In the South Seas_ (Ch. V), pointed out that, while before
the coming of the whites the Polynesians were, on the whole,
chaste, and the young carefully watched, now it is far otherwise.

Even in Fiji, where, according to Lord Stanmore--who was High
Commissioner of the Pacific, and an independent
critic--missionary effort has been "wonderfully successful,"
where all own at least nominal allegiance to Christianity, which
has much modified life and character, yet chastity has suffered.
This was shown by a Royal Commission on the condition of the
native races in Fiji. Mr. Fitchett, commenting on this report
(Australasian _Review of Reviews_, Oct., 1897) remarks: "Not a
f