"Stayers at home, as we Frenchmen are, forming our opinions from
newspapers whose editors know no more than ourselves what goes on in
foreign countries, we too willingly see in the British nation an
egotistical and rapacious people, thinking of nothing but the extension
of their commerce and the prosperity of their industry. We are apt to
pretend that their philanthropic enterprises and religious works are a
mere hypocrisy. Courage is absolutely needed in order to affirm, at the
risk of exciting the indignation of our _soi-disant_ patriots, that
although England knows perfectly well how to take care of her
commercial interests in her colonies, she knows equally well how to
pre-occupy and occupy herself with the moral interests of the people
whom she places by agreement or by force under the sceptre of her Queen.
Those who have seen and who know, have the duty of saying to those who
have not seen, and who cannot, or who do not desire to see, and who do
not know, that these two currents flowing from the British nation,--the
one commercial and the other philanthropic,--are equally active amongst
the uncivilized nations of Africa, and that if one wishes to find
colonies in which exist real and complete liberty of conscience, where
the education and moralisation of the natives are the object of serious
concern, drawing largely upon the budget of the metropolis, it is always
and above all in English possessions that you must look for them.

"Under the domination of the Boers, Lessuto would have been devoted to
destruction, to ignorance, and to semi-slavery. Under the English régime
reign security and progress. Lessuto became a territory reserved solely
for its native proprietors, the sale of strong liquors was prohibited,
and the schools received generous subvention. Catholics, Protestants,
Anglicans, French and English Missionaries, could then enjoy the most
absolute liberty in order to spread, each one in his own manner, and in