Trains make
it easy to go from one part of the country to another, and no tribe is
allowed to fight. Where there is no fighting, people have tried to
learn and to grow wise. The dark-skinned races of South Africa are
learning to be good workmen, and some to be wise enough to be teachers
and even doctors to serve and help their own people to lead happier
and more useful lives.
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THE GREAT FARMS OF SOUTH AFRICA
1. The Two White Races
In the last chapter we read about some of the dark-skinned Africans
who live in South Africa, but we said also that there are many
Europeans living there too. These Europeans came from two nations in
Europe--the English and the Dutch. Now in South Africa they live side
by side, doing the same work, and all obeying and helping the
Government of South Africa, which is European. For many years these
two nations kept separate, but the wisest men in each saw that this
was bad, and they decided to make one strong nation. When Europeans
go to live in another country, they take all their own customs with
them, and so in South Africa there are cities and houses exactly like
those in their old homes in Europe.
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