Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-02-27
The Future OF Africa.

In just published paper by DIR. A Core,
q French physician, the author discusses
great array of data on the subject of the &C
climatization of the native races OF Africa
and comes to some conclusions of great mo-
ment in connection with the future of that
continent. DIR. Core shows that in temper
ate climates like that of North America the
negro has shown himself possessed of a
genuine capacity of standardization In
tropical countries, however, such rs the West
Indies, Africans have proved themselves in
capable of maintaining their numbers and
! have, moreover, become demoralized and in
capable of efficient labor, except under
slavery. Even in tropical Africa itself the
native, DIR. Core maintains, Is incapable Of
developing the resources of the continent
even under Uhitss- ss-Iye-a1s1eSa1shce N-Ihss.
where the negro Is at home he u subject to
great mortality, he does not succeed IN PeO-
| ping in sufficient proportion the most fertile
regions; the highest degree of civilization
which he IS able to attain is state of semi
barbarisIn, under the influence of degraded
| Islamism- Wherever he comes into contact
with Europeans, if he escapes the influence
of a religion which condemns him to social
immobility, he contracts vices which conduce
to his retrogession. The negro has nowhere
freely reached the height of superior civil
cation. He has borrowed that Of the white
man only to satisfy his instincts, never to
Q
liquors to get drunk, our powder and arms TO
carry on noisy war, our garments to cut
dash DIR. Core never met q negro with
book in his hands outside Of the schools Of
SenegambiR. Does an experiment Of more
than three centuries encourage the hope of
modification of the clinical aptitudes of the
African DIR. Core thinks not The negro
may furnish, on account of his immunity
from yellow fever and marsh fever. soldiers
and laborers who may help to install the
first settlements of Europeans. He viii new
er form serious empire under the direction
of the white races SO long as these are IL an
infnitesimal minority. The European races,
DIR. Core maintains, must people Africa Is
they have peopled and are still peoplIng
America. He thinks we may produce those
who will be called to carry out this work Il
will not be the Anglo-Saxon he thinks, since
his want of aptitude to maintain himself in
the torrid zone will push him back sooner or
later in spite of his efforts towards the south
ern zone, if he does not succeed in buying mp
some point in the northern zone nor the
German. so devoid of aptitude for aeelimati-
cation in warm countries nor the Portu-
guese, too reduced by the colossal efforts he
has made to colonize an extent of country
out of all proportion to the density of
population. But, without doubt, it viii be
the Spaniards and Italians, who have already
multiplied in Algeria the latter especially,
whose eovetousness has been SO pronounced
in Tunis, Tripoi and Egypt" France, then
Dr. Core concludes, ought to occupy herself
more than ever with the means of increasing
the white population in Algeria and Senegal
sparing no sacrifice to direct into these
countries emigrants drawn from her own
people, and assured against the initiatory
dangers of administration by the lessons Of
experience and respect for the laws Of that
sanitary science which is now fairly estab-
lished But in spite of DIR. Cores formids-
BILE array of data, the negro can hardly be
said to have yet had fair play either at home
or abroad.