ABSTRACT
The endeavour to improve the conditions of life among the coloured races is a new phenomenon. The coloured races usually lead a nomadic life and move with their herds from one pasturage to another. The idea of property is little developed, and even when these races settle down to a primitive sort of tillage the usual form of property is that of collective village ownership. Among the coloured races there exist very varied potentialities of development, but in one respect they are identical: there is only one means of developing a higher civilization among them, and that is to instruct them in practical agriculture and to settle them. Colonists sought only gold and raw materials and afterwards space to be settled by new-comers. The aim of colonization is no longer restricted to the promotion of exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to the mother country.
