 They had heard it said, and they were fearful words, that it was the law of nature that the coloured races should melt away before the advance of civilization. He would tell them where that law was registered, and who were its agents. It was registered...  Scenes and Studies of Savage Life - Page 272by Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1868 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Missions - 1867 - 538 pages
...way to the temptations forced upon them by their English brethren. You have heard it said that it is a law of nature that the coloured races should melt away before the advance of civilization. I will tell you where that law was registered, and who are its agents. It was registered in hell, and... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - Anthropology - 1868 - 690 pages
...gentlemen, probably emulating Parson Browulow, Mr. Spurgeon, et hoc genus omne, thus delivers himself: — " They had heard it said that it was a law of nature...coloured' races should melt away before the advance of civilisation. He would tell them where that law was registered, and who were its agents. It was registered... | |
 | James Bonwick - Aboriginal Tasmanians - 1870 - 452 pages
...them by their English brethren. They had heard it said, and they were fearful words, that it was the law of nature that the coloured races should melt...made twofold more the children of hell than himself. He from the bottom of his heart urged them to do all they could to discountenance the use of spirituous... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...from whites is an equally important cause. Brown quotes George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand: They had heard it said that it was a law of Nature that the coloured race should melt away before the advance of civilisation. He would tell them where that law was registered:... | |
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