From _Tafilet_, p. 353. By W. B. Harris. (Blackwood, 1895.) "The Moors have a proverb, and it is a very true one, that safety and security can only be found in the districts where there is no government--that is to say, where the government is a _tribal_ one." +Degradation through "Civilisation"+ From _The Spiritualism of the Zulu_. By C. H. Bull, of Durban. "Thirty-two years ago, I lived for some time in a district in Natal, then thickly populated with natives, still conforming to the primitive customs of their race, yet honest, manly and intelligent people, with very definite ideas in regard to moral questions. After an absence of thirty years, just prior to my sailing for England, I again visited the district and was amazed to observe the change which had taken place in the people; their habits, characters and physique. Sordid poverty, dressed in mean rags or tawdry finery, suggestive of service to vice, had displaced the old dignity, born of conscious physical strength and symmetry of form, which once, though attired only in the trappings that simple art could devise from the rough products of nature, was characteristic; whilst drunkenness, dishonesty and immorality sought shelter under the meagre cloaks of the religion dispensed by the different sections of belief, established in the little iron, or wattle and daub churches, which everywhere disfigured the country side. The change was complete and deplorable, nor were the natives unconscious of their degradation, or without regret for the passing of the old days." +Slavery+ From Waitz's _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, vol. ii, p. 281. (Leipzig, 1860.) "One finds that the fate of Slaves among the ruder peoples is much happier than among the civilised; indeed it seems to grow worse and worse in proportion to the civilisation of the ruling folk. Strange and incredible as at first sight this seems, the following facts establish it beyond doubt. And indeed it is not difficult to explain. The chief reason is that with the increase of _merely material culture_, Time and Labour-force are more and more prized, and consequently always more violently and unscrupulously exploited, while on the contrary among primitive people in general a lesser value is placed on these things." +The Fraud of Western Civilisation+ Extract from "A Letter to a Chinese Gentleman," by Leo Tolstoy. (Published in _Saturday Review_, December 1, 1906.)