Mr. Harrison's lecture on " Humanity" on New Year's Day
was still vaguer and less interesting. It appears to have been merely a diatribe against Imperialism, pointed by a declara- tion that England should retire from Uganda. But Mr. Harrison did not show either what the Negro race is able to do for itself without aid from the more civilised West, or which of the other Western races is competent and inclined to give the Negro peoples better assistance in putting down the infamies of the slave-trade and learning the elementary lessons of self-discipline, than the English give. If he had been able to give us information on either of these points, his tirade against English Imperialism would have had more force and point. " Humanity" does not appear to have been much illustrated by Mr. Harrison's windy prolocuden.
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