Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — New Form of Civilization. [ARTICLE]

New Form of Civilization.

That the Basutos in South Africa are capable of emerging from their tribal system into a new form of civilization, apart from white influence whatever, is the belief of Lord Selborne, a former high commissioner for South Africa. “But it will take a great many generations,” he added. “Yet the process has begun, and it is very interesting to see the evolution from the ordinary hut to the nice house, and also to see the evolution from the tribal system of cultivation to that of individual tenure of land. Those in Europe who think that our civilization might be improved by our abolition of all forms of private, property might do worse than consider the attempts of the more intelligenfr'Basutos to escape from their tribal system.” ’ Lord Selborne further declared his conviction that there was nothing to fear from the Basutos in South Africa unless they were misgoverned.