Christianity the Means of Civilization: Shown in the Evidence Given Before a Committee of the House of Commons, on Aborigines

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R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, L. and G. Seeley, and T. Mason, 1837 - 360 من الصفحات
" ... Your Committee have proceeded to take evidence, and their inquiries have extended to Southern Africa, the Canadas, New Foundland, New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. They have also received some information relative to New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, which countries, though not British possessions, are continually visited by subjects of Great Britain, and on which many of them reside ..."--Page 2
 

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الصفحة 169 - do unto others as you would they should do unto you " — the forgiveness of injuries and more which I do not remember.
الصفحة 198 - ... any shall offend you or your people, you shall have a full and speedy satisfaction for the same by an equal number of just men on both sides, that by no means you may have just occasion of being offended against them.
الصفحة i - t appointed to consider what Measures ought to be adopted with regard to the NATIVE INHABITANTS of Countries where BRITISH SETTLEMENTS are made, and to the neighbouring Tribes, in order to secure to them the due observance of Justice and the protection of their Rights ; to promote the spread of Civilization among them, and to lead them to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian Religion...
الصفحة 1 - to consider what measures ought to be adopted with regard to the native inhabitants of countries where British settlements are made, and to the neighbouring tribes, in order to secure to them the due observance of justice and the protection of their rights, to promote the spread of civilisation among them, and to lead them to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian religion " (see Report of this Committee, 1837).
الصفحة 2 - House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
الصفحة 181 - The natives gave us all the assistance in their power, from the time the ship struck to the present moment. The first day, while landing the things from the ship, they were put into the hands of the natives, and carried up to the native mission house, a distance of half a mile : and not a single article of clothing was taken from any man belonging to the ship, though they had it in their...
الصفحة 111 - Not six years ago they commenced on the very rudiments of learning : now, many of them can read and write their own language with propriety, and are completely masters of the First Rules of Arithmetic.
الصفحة 136 - The men now make the houses, plant the fields, provide the fuel and provisions for the house ; the business of the women is to manage the household affairs. The females eat with the men at the same table. You will be glad to hear that they are not insensible to the great things the gospel has done for them. I have often heard them expressing their thanks to the Great Spirit for sending them missionaries to tell them the words of eternal life, which have been the means of delivering them from a state...
الصفحة 169 - ... missionaries to tell them the words of eternal life, which have been the means of delivering them from a state of misery and degradation." The testimony of the Rev. William Ellis, secretary of the London Missionary Society, is to the same effect. " True civilization and Christianity," he observes, " are inseparable ; the former has never been found but as a fruit of the latter.
الصفحة iv - Author if godliness alone were the exception — if it were not 'profitable for the life that now is, as well as for that which is to come' !" "They make that work the other way, don't they?

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