If the Bedouin Arab does not know how to read, some English missionary or schoolmaster must be sent to teach him to read, but no one ever says, 'This schoolmaster does not know how to ride on a camel; let us pay a Bedouin to teach him.' You say your civilisation will include all talents.

Will it?
Do you really mean to say that at the moment when the Esquimaux has learnt to vote for a County Council, you will have learnt to spear a walrus?
I recur to the example I gave.

In Nicaragua we had a way of catching wild horses--by lassooing the fore feet--which was supposed to be the best in South America.

If you are going to include all the talents, go and do it.

If not, permit me to say what I have always said, that something went from the world when Nicaragua was civilised." "Something, perhaps," replied Barker, "but that something a mere barbarian dexterity.