The English in India—(_continued_).—Treatment of the Natives 252 XVII. The English in India.—Treatment of the Natives— (_continued_) 272 XVIII. The English in India—(_continued_) 285 XIX. The English in India—(_concluded_) 298 XX. The French in their Colonies 312 XXI. The English in America 330 XXII. The English in America—Settlement of Pennsylvania 356 XXIII. The English in America till the Revolt of the Colonies 367 XXIV. Treatment of the Indians by the United States 386 XXV. Treatment of the Indians by the United States— (_continued_) 402 XXVI. The English in South Africa 417 XXVII. The English in South Africa—(_continued_) 443 XXVIII. The English in New Holland and the Islands of the Pacific 469 XXIX. Conclusion 499 COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY. CHAPTER I. These are they, O Lord! Who in thy plain and simple gospel see All mysteries, but who find no peace enjoined, No brotherhood, no wrath denounced on them Who shed their brethren’s blood! Blind at noon-day As owls; lynx-eyed in darkness.—_Southey._ Christianity has now been in the world upwards of ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS. For more than a thousand years the European nations have arrogated to themselves the title of CHRISTIAN! some of their monarchs, those of MOST SACRED and MOST CHRISTIAN KINGS! We have long laid to our souls the flattering unction that we are a civilized and a Christian people. We talk of all other nations in all other quarters of the world, as savages, barbarians, uncivilized. We talk of the ravages of the Huns, the irruptions of the Goths; of the terrible desolations of Timour, or Zenghis Khan. We talk of Alaric and Attila, the sweeping carnage of Mahomet, or the cool cruelties of more modern Tippoos and Alies. We shudder at the war-cries of naked Indians, and the ghastly feasts of Cannibals; and bless our souls that we are redeemed from all these things, and made models of beneficence, and lights of God in the earth! It is high time that we looked a little more rigidly into our pretences. It is high time that we examined, on the evidence of facts, whether we are quite so refined, quite so civilized, quite so Christian as we have assumed to be. It is high time that we look boldly into the real state of the question, and learn actually, whether the mighty distance between our goodness and the moral depravity of other people really exists. WHETHER, IN FACT, WE ARE CHRISTIAN AT ALL!