TWO DIVERSE RACES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 6, 2 October 1926, Page 8

TWO DIVERSE RACES

BUT COMMON ASPIRATIONS

“The whole British civilisation reposes upon moral ideas, whilst that of Latin civilisation rests upon intellectual ideas. There exists, nevertheless, between the two races of diverse mentality and psychological affinity the aspiration to mould the human personality in the universal concert with genial creations which vanquish time and pass into history,” said Senor H Bidone, Consul-Gen-eral for the Argentine Republic, in an address to the Economic Society at Victoria College last night ''Every nation, whether great 'or small,” declared' Senor Bidone, “’has produced some work, manual or mental, which has immortalised it. The law of mysterious fatality has not, happily, so far weighed down “upon ns enslaving human reason; but, on the other hand, .breathes a new spirit, a creative imagination, which operates in progressive and undefined planes. We are the architects of our own destine, for though we are born with a divine inspiration and draw from Nature the elements of life, the ambient law of inheritance, the passions, the idea’s and sufferings modify or annul those factors. In all the hierarchies of public life, if renovation' is the law of life, crystal isatior is the shroud of death. Humanity is forging new moulds of life and opening out extraneous sources in order to overcome its passions, announcing the fulfilling of bygone aspirations of social well-being. It is the urgent function of its • tatisticians to oppose it with intelligent' weightiness, guarding it with modern legislation in the evolutionary hour in which we live, to utilise all the energies of muscle and intellect as a homage to liberty, progress, and human civilisation.”