Excerpt from The Maoris of New Zealand
For they are ancestors of whom no man need be ashamed.
I hope, too, that none of his people or any other will ever "take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."
It was my good fortune also to meet several of these Maori M.P.'s in the New Zealand Parliament in much less than a century after their fathers had been cannibals.
Surely the world is rapidly progressing. May our God lift up all the nations. He expects much from us who have been born into the world in the midst of clearer light.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Maoris of New Zealand (Classic Reprint) (D. Vannorman Lucas)