Excerpt from La Vérité sur la Civilisation au CongoPlacés en face de la sauvagerie primitive, aux prises avec des coutumes sanguinaires datant de milliers d'années, ils ont à lesréduire graduellement. Il leur faut soumettre les populations à des lois nouvelles dont la plus impérieuse comme la plus salutaire est assurément celle du travail.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.