NEMESIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 162, 9 July 1907, Page 7

NEMESIS.

(To the EditorJ Sir, —Just as the Greek, .even under the Eastern Empire, despised Asiatics a3 barbarians, and just as the Romans underrated the prowess of the hordes that flowed from the East, while Greek and Roman equally forgot the old central Asian home of their own' an-' cestors, so the colonial, remotely descended from Asiatic forefathers, blindly and obliviously undervalues the Chinaman, the Tartar, and Asiatics generally and collectively. Russia was so unfortunate as to be the first to learn a lesson of humility from the wonderful Japs, and, because practical proof is the only proof, the colonial believes what he sees or knows with certainty. All will admit that from China came some of the first gleams of civilisation, but few will take to heart that the eastern part of Asia contains a vast explosive force that threatens to be responsible for the extinction of the last embers of a dying Western civilisation. Yet the manners and customs of the Romans, who founded many modern methods, exclusive of science, permeate various branches of our existing institutions and ways, and we are striving to confer the Roman alphabet and derived literature on the Easterns. The West thought to conquer and assimilate the East. The Romans once expected to absorb the West. World Empire is a hydra whose growing heads devour those grown. The process, though repulsive, is natural. I am, etc., MAURICE R. KEESING.