_The Offensive Stranger_: Pardon me, _all_ cases prove it. Columbus discovered a new world and gave to the plodding poor and the landless of Europe farms and breathing space and plenty and happiness---- _The Dervish_: A good result. _The Offensive Stranger_: And they hunted and harried the original owners of the soil, and robbed them, beggared them, drove them from their homes, and exterminated them, root and branch. _The Dervish_: An evil result, yes. _The Offensive Stranger_: The French Revolution brought desolation to the hearts and homes of five million families and drenched the country with blood and turned its wealth to poverty. _The Dervish_: An evil result. _The Offensive Stranger_: But every great and precious liberty enjoyed by the nations of continental Europe to-day are the gift of that Revolution. _The Dervish_: A good result, I concede it. _The Offensive Stranger_: In our well-meant effort to lift up the Filipino to our own moral altitude with a musket, we have slipped on the ice and fallen down to his. _The Dervish_: A large evil result. _The Offensive Stranger_: But as an offset we are a World Power. _The Dervish_: Give me time. I must think this one over. Pass on. _The Offensive Stranger_: By help of three hundred thousand soldiers and eight hundred million dollars England has succeeded in her good purpose of lifting up the unwilling Boers and making them better and purer and happier than they could ever have become by their own devices. _The Dervish_: Certainly that is a good result. _The Offensive Stranger_: But there are only eleven Boers left now. _The Dervish_: It has the appearance of an evil result. But I will think it over before I decide. _The Offensive Stranger_: Take yet one more instance. With the best intentions the missionary has been laboring in China for eighty years. _The Dervish_: The evil result is---- _The Offensive Stranger_: That nearly a hundred thousand Chinamen have acquired our Civilization. _The Dervish_: And the good result is---- _The Offensive Stranger_: That by the compassion of God four hundred millions have escaped it. INSTRUCTIONS IN ART (With Illustrations by the Author)