THE PASSING OF THE WHITE RACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 23 August 1911, Page 2

THE PASSING OF THE WHITE RACE.

Here is a striking point of view put orward in “Public Opinion” by a ,-ail known American literary woman -Mis Anne Warner: — “I wonder bow soon all we of the .Vhito Race.will learn the final lesson md pass—regretfully as many other

scholars —out of school into the larger world of which we, as other school children, arc largely ignorant. Every .ace lives its life and dies its death, md all the hue and outcry as to war, divorce, eugenics, woman, and all the rest of the useless clatter arc but the marks of man’s rebellion when he sees the inevitable close at hand.

“It is a pitifully limited view that, sees this world as the only end; alnost as pitifully limited as the tiny main that, can conceive a divine soul • iving in a single human life. Why lo we of the White Race heat' our wings so cruelly because our day is almost over here ? Is ‘here’ all ? Are there no other planes on which the Divine will can function? Is our end here any more of an end than the death of any one of us is the death of his country ? “One would suppose ,t° read the daily papers, that the universe was to bo submerged when China awakes, or that the Japanese managed to exist entirely outside of the Eternal Purpose. Wo know that the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, and the Romans became decadent and passed away, and we scream and shriek when the signs that preceded their fall come flaming among us. One would think that by some natural perversity women grew flat-chested, and their ended a flourishing civilisation. Whereas, the truth is that every unnatural development of modern life is an effect and not a cause, and merely marks the ending of the material manifestation of one kind of man. “The White Race has learned all that, this particular school, or reformatory, or hospital, called Our World, has to teach, and it is graduating out of its uniform of flesh and moving on to grapple other and infinitely greater problems elsewhere. The races pass along in classes numbered according. to age, a few ef the graduates choosing to remain as pupil teachers, others as nurses, others as masters. But they are very few. The new scholars press in upon the lowest benches and pass slowly upward. We only know the history of the course through the writings of the most advanced, but we ought not to clojse our eyes to the clear teaching there enunciated. No man knows the Secret *of Life, but many men dare to declare that Death is no secret at all, but that it is clear, simple, and final. “Our race has several centuries to live yet, because we. must each live here until we have learned both >secrcts . Then when the mortal' really understands the meaning of what he professes to believe now, it will not be so vital a ’thing to him who fishes in what water or who buys and sells upon what Shore. ‘We. shall hardly! make as dignified aji outward end; as the Romans did before the Goths, but we shall step onward and upward winged by better work on higher lines. Each race has had its distinct kind of problems given it to do, and the Roman had his, and we labour now at ours.

“There is no excuse for faltering or loitering because the end approaches. The last nail is as much needed as the first. If we were not necessary we should he gone now. “There is no reason to complain nor to regret. To-morrow is the time in which to do, better, not yesterday. “There is no need to fear. The unborn child' docs not fear, and we arc just as blind,' as safe, and as certain of a future life as he. “But the thing to do is to throw away the silly chase after patent medicines to restore youth, because no amount, of steel plates nor granitefronted earthworks can restore strength to the aged race—and to apply ourselves earnestly to the teaching of the ‘little ones.’ The Phoenicians and Romans were patient with us even as the Atlantcs and- Greeks wore patient with them. Let us be patient with the Slav, the Celto-Iber-ian, the Mongol, and the horde of dark-skinned who are the babies of the cycle.

“ If we survey to-day with a wide gaze we see that this is just what we are doing, and that the lust for j conquest a fid for love that lured our youth is faded for lack of land a,nd again for lack of womanliness. Old men do not cease to bo lovers because they are old, but because theirs is not the time of love. Women are not losing their birth right to-day because they reject the claims of nature, but because the race is old and nature manifests in another way at that period. We cry out at effect and mistake it for cause, whereas the road truth is that as the bodies of our race die the souls are moving on at once to another sphere fitted for more advanced development, and no more bodies need to bo provided here. Bodies come into being exactly as frocks are purchased. When a certain kind is no longer needed, it soon ceases to bo manufactured. The White Race is not dying—it is merely approaching the time when it can manifest according to God’s will in some other part of His Universe. Those who deny this are the backward who delay the progress of the whole class. Those who admit it are the earnest students. Those who view it with serenity are the graduates.”