heir relations, and how will the difficulties be met to which their
juxtaposition must give rise?

The Colonies of Britain over the world fall into two groups: those which
have received the gift of self-government, and those which are governed
from home through executive officials placed over each of them. Those of
the latter class, called Crown Colonies, are all (with the insignificant
exceptions of the Falkland Islands and Malta) within the tropics, and
are all peopled chiefly by coloured races,--negroes, Indians, Malays,
Polynesians, or Chinese,--with a small minority of whites. The
self-governing Colonies, on the other hand, are all situated in the
temperate zone, and are all, with one exception, peopled chiefly by
Europeans. It is because they have a European population that they have
been deemed fit to govern themselves, just as it is because the tropical
Colonies have a predominantly coloured population that the supremacy of
the Colonial Office and its local representatives is acquiesced in as
fit and proper. Every one perceives that representative assemblies based
on a democratic franchise, which are capable of governing Canada or
Australia, would not succeed in the West Indies or Ceylon or Fiji.

The one exception to this broad division, the one case of self-governing
communities in which the majority of the inhabitants are not of European
stock, is to be found in South Africa. The general difficulty of
adjusting the relations of a higher and a lower race, serious under
every kind of government, here presents itself in the special form of
the construction of a political system which, while democratic as
regards one of the races, cannot safely be made democratic as regards
the other. This difficulty, though new in the British empire, is not new
in the Southern States of America, which have been struggling with it
for years; and it is instructive to compare the experience of South
Africa with that through which the Southern States have passed since the
War of Secession.

Throughout South Africa--and for this purpose no distinction need be
drawn between the two British Colonies and the two Boer Republics--the
people of colour may be divided into two classes: the wild or tribal
natives, who are, of course, by far the more numerous, and the tame or
domesticated natives, among whom one may include, though they are not
aborigines, but recent incomers, the East Indians of Natal and the
Transvaal, as well as the compa