and commercial regimes are established freely by himself.
He would say, and with greater accuracy than did Louis XIV.,
‘The State, it is I.’” Prof. F. Cattier, Brussels University.
“Let us repeat after so many others what has become
a platitude, the success of the African work is the work of
a sole directing will, without being hampered by the hesita-
tion of timorous politicians, carried out under his sole respon-
sibility,—intelligent, thought-
ful, conscious of the perils
and the advantages, dis-