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nearly all worked, will never be seen again. The new
generation is completely different, capable of rising to
greater heights and of descending to greater depths.
They deserve a more sympathetic knowledge of their
difficulties and their far greater temptations. African
parents need to be taught this before it is too late so
that they may realize that they are dealing with finer bits
of mechanism than they themselves were.
Carothers stresses the fact that it is indeed a very little literacy
that produces these effects, “some familiarity with written
symbols—in reading, writing and arithmetic.”
Finally (p. 318), Carothers turns for a moment to China,
where printing had been invented in the seventh or eighth
century and yet “seems to have had little effect in