The  choice  is  probably  an  exclusive  one.  If  we
introduce  Indians  as  settlers  we  are  probably
signing  the  death-warrant  of  the  Kanaka,  for  the
Indian  is  himself  a  subject  race,  and  cannot
possibly,  when  he  himself  stands  in  need  of  educa-
tion, hope  to  play  the  part  of  educator  to  another


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subject  race.    And  the  Kanaka's  only  chance  of
survival  is  through  education.
All  these  considerations  fail  to  shake  my  belief
that  we  ought  to  reject  this  third  possibility.
If  we  once  admit  that  the  world  is  to  be  run  on
purely  opportunist  principles,  that  one  race  being
stronger  or  wiser  than  another  can  and  should
stamp  it  out  and  take  its  place,  then  we  might
justify  the  replacing  of  the  Kanaka  by  the  Indian.
But  that  is  a  doctrine  which  on  August  4,  1914,
we  English  definitely  and  for  all  time  repudiated.
