3. THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF
THERE was once an earnest administrator who brought to the control of all the territories a sense of order which was almost devastating in its thoroughness.
He discovered, as so many men new from armchairs in Whitehall have discovered, that (to quote his own report):
'The laws of the native territories are in a condition of chaos. In some areas tribal customs are accepted by responsible officials as adequate substitutions of the law. In other areas, there has come to be observed a compromise between the laws sanctioned by the Imperial Government and laws which apparently are based upon the primitive reasonings of the native tribes and peoples.'
He set himself to rectify this undesirable state of affairs, and in four years produced a compromise of his own whi
