ABSTRACT
IN the thirties and forties the settlement colonies of Great Britain might be divided into two classes. On the one hand, in North America and South Africa, land settlement and colonization proceeded with little pretence at regulation; on the other, in Australia and New Zealand, an attempt at least was being made to proceed systematically. However much Gibbon Wakefield might at times disclaim responsibility, the whole doctrine of systematic colonization was essentially his; and the reason for the distinction which has just been made lay in the fact that his ideas were pretty clearly inapplicable to South African conditions and, in the opinion of most British North American authorities, were inapplicable to British North American conditions also.
