Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the 
African. 

*     Carothers concludes his discussion of the effects of 
phonetic writing on Africans with an excerpt (pp. 317­18) 
from an article that appeared in a Kenya daily newspaper, the 
East African Standard . The author, a missionary doctor, 
headed his article “How Civilization Has Affected the African.” 

          The purpose of this article is to show that through 
     a very little education a remarkably rapid and far-reaching 
     change has taken place in African boys and girls, so much 
     so that in a generation, human characteristics and 
     reactions have altered to a degree which one would have 
     expected to have taken centuries.
          The high qualities of the African untouched by