A Universal Brotherhood.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 1 November 1911, Page 51

A Universal Brotherhood.

I believe that the races are on the road to mutual understanding, which is n road that leads away from mutual superiority. In these day of wireless communication, even the Chinese can hardly consider the British as barbarians, still less should the British consider colour as a cleat brand of inferiority. Of all countries, England can least afford the pleasures of prejudice, for there is none which rules over so vast a variety of mankind, and it is on the rock of racial problems that the British Empire may split. The attempt to run an Empire of Freemen, which at the same time' is to hold inferior races, who are to be debarred from the franchise and freedoin of entry'is an attempt'which must end either hi-the rebellion of the coloured races or ill the enslavement of the white masters themselves under a regime of blood and iron. The British genius for muddling through, witlwut underlying concepts cannot serve England for ever. The .only enduring salvation for the -British Empire, as for mankind at large-, lies -in brotherly love and in that equality of opportunity which is the real criterion of inequality. May .the coming Congress of Races foster this spirit of the future. —Israel Zangwill on “Rac.j Undertaking,” in the Coronation Symposium of “T.P.’s Magazine” for June..