ABSTRACT
It is strenuously asserted by rash and irresponsible literaliats that the Gold Coast, with its multiform composition of congeries of States or Provinces, independent of each other, divided by complex political institutions, laws and customs, and speaking a great variety of languages—could not be described as a nation in the eminent sense of the word. That is the eternal principle of Altruism-the death-knell of Egotism, the grand secret of national success. That nations have souls is a re-discovered truth of supreme importance. In matters of the soul OUl' rulers are inaccessible, linapproachable. We need intermediaries-Buffers between the people and the government.
