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But what can be done? What course should we pursue? Let us consider a few / possible solutions and the reasons which bear upon them.
There is one cardinal fact which dominates everything. It is that _any_ / change must be for the better. Under their old savage _regime_ as Stanley / found them the tribes were infinitely happier, richer and more advanced / than they are to-day. If they should return undisturbed to such an / existence, the situation would, at least, be free from all that lowering / of the ideals of the white race which is implied by a Belgian occupation. / We may start with a good heart, therefore, since whatever happens must be / for the better.