THE RED MAN.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

THE hackneyed question of mental capacity, relative and positive, of the Red Man is continually thrust forward in connection with the policy pursued towards him. It is the favourite theme of the frontiers, as it involves not only the possibility of his civilisation butin the expansive conclusion of border logic and of white man's avarice-his right to the soil. Its satisfactory solution-satisfactory to the white man only-is deemed a plausible justification of the white man's aggression; and, as if it were an opiate for distressed consciences, he 'shakes it' (before the world!