ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 215 with in England, and in many quarters cordially disapproved of.

There is, of course, the other side of the shield. A person intensely absorbed in the pursuit of ideal or the application of a principle may give insufficient weight to other influences, and may be led to lose consciousness of the diagonal of the parallelogram of forces. But if this be the case, he will inevitably be faced with results which cannot long be ignored.

The general principle in dealing with the raw negroid races has been firstly to get into touch with them along the more easily accessible routes, to trade with them in order to demonstrate honesty of purpose, to exhaust the resources of patience and tact before falling back on the employment of power. Moral influence against robbery and raids comes next, and so long as belief that a power in the background exists, it is wonderful what results may be attained. Then comes the matter of taxation, and the trouble begins, when firmness and discretion are again brought into play.

After all, the taming of wild man runs on much the same lines as that of wild horses. The horse first has to be caught ; the negroid first has to be met in the person of the Chief—not always a matter of ease, suspicion and contemptuous defiance being not seldom exhibited. The initial stages of "breaking"—in a philanthropic sense—may be seen in every variety in the Upper Nile province. The saddle has been placed in position in instances, but it is doubtful whether, despite all the years