Hoernlé (R.F. Alfred) - SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVE POLICY AND THE LIBERAL SPIRIT

Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures, delivered before the University of Cape Town, May 1939

First edition: 190 pages, red cloth boards, titled gilt on the spine, light foxing on the preliminary and end pages, several pages have pencil annotations,a good copy in the worn dust jacket.

Ownership signature of R.K. Senyama Lovedale 1940 on the dust jacket, front paste down end paper and on the page edges.

R.F. Alfred Hoernle (1880-1943) originated from Bonn/Germany and was educated at Oxford/United Kingdom. In his career as a professional philosopher he taught at various Universities in the United States, United Kingdom and South Africa, where he was, till his death, Professor in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1920-1943). He took great interest in two great South African problems, the Afrikaaner - English problem and the European - Native problem, as it was called at the time. The latter was fully covered in his book "South African Native Policy and the Liberal Spirit". Hoernle served as Chairman and as member of the Council of the South African Institute of Race Relations
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