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hut after all that has been done to open the countries to trade and 
to improve the conditions of life and health, there remains only a 
small portion of the continent which is suitable for the habitation of 
the white man. And it is only in the temperate colonies of the 
French and British, and in the highlands of a few of the tropical 
countries like Uganda and Northern Rhodesia, that the whites will 
be able to settle in any large numbers. Nor is it particularly de- 
sirable that they should, in a land two thirds of which lie within the 
tropics, which contains an excessive proportion of desert, arid and 
swampy territory, and which supports already a large native popu- 
lation. It is impossible to reconcile these two racial elements, or to 
weld a country populated by both blacks and whites into one har- 
monious nation. The experience of South Africa has amply de- 
monstrated the follies, the evils, and the difficulties of such a move- 
ment. It has resulted there, as always, in the establishment of a 
state governed for and by the whites, the blacks being relegated to 
certain districts reserved to them by the Imperial Government. 
It has, therefore, become quite clear that a very large proportion of 
the African continent is not adapted to the purposes of national 
expansion by Continental states, or to European colonization. 
Africa is furnishing a great and an ever-increasing market for the 
products of Europe and America (and openings for European capi- 
tal are numerous and promising); but none of the subdivisions of 
the Dark Continent — with the possible exception of South Africa 
— can be regarded as a national asset.