Africa, being as old as it is, makes all people except the professional invaders and spoilers, into children. No-one says to anyone in Africa, 'Why don't you grow up?'. All men and animals acquire a year more of age each year, and some acquire a year more of kwledge. The animals that die the soonest learn the fastest. Men kw that they are children in relation to the country and, as in armies seniority and senility ride close together. A man must comport himself as a man. But it is never a reproach that he has kept a child's heart, a child's honesty, and a child's freshness and bility.