RACE PREJUDICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14525, 12 November 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

RACE PREJUDICE.

The Westminster Review (October) continues the discussion of the racial problem. Mr. M. Breckinridge Morrison, dealing with "Race' Prejudice," concludes: "Why, after all, is race prejudice 7 The Briton at home is indifferent to it, but in the colonies he feels its force; the citizen of the Northern United States denies it, but in the South, uninfluenced by the kindly traditions that still operate between the ' darkies' and the native Southerner, he out-Herods Herod. Does not this physical and mental shrinking, old almost as history, on the part of the so-called higher races, from contact with the so-called lower, amount.to more than a barbarity to be expunged in an enlightened age 'i Are nature's instincts ever at fault'/ Is not race prejudice tantamount to race protection ? The presence of higher and lower races in the same country means either constant friction or amalgamation, to the deterioration of Can we be true to our own development if we override tide intuitive antipathy that would warn us, and has thundered warnings from the ages past until this day 'i Race prejudice is race purity; it may be race salvation.

As for the love we are taught as Christians to bear towards all our neighbours, of which Sir. Cowan speaks in concluding, none of .us are debarred from ' pouring out our souls, unto death.' We may help the Asiatic, help the negro, on behalf each of his own people, to rise higher in the scale of better things. There are no limits'to spiritual possibilities, and in the light of a love too universal for us to understand, somehow, somewhere, nature's laws may evolve conditions under which the Caucasian, the Asiatic, and the African can work side by side, and heart to heart. But 1 must confess that I am reminded of the prophecy in Isaiah where the wolf and the lamb, tub leopard and the kid, lie down in harmony together."