The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-12-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. .,


tUr tfiliginti anu IN uftucucfo ~ w WV
Of tho race Gan be paralieled almost point Tor
point among tho ancestors of the critics thsi'-
selves. We would not intimate that there N not
a great and real difference Ia tho character ana
capabilities Of different races and natlons-b"t
tbs failure of tho attenpts to express the reason
OF u difference which people feel. but do not
clearly apprehend, IL M amusing IN ara many Of
tho so,ealied :, definitions f" In - elementary
books Ut soielon.
Take, for Instance, tho often noted precedence
Of females among the ilawaiians under the ola
regime, and compare tho remark OF Taolt"s that
In his day tho british ladies were ihd"iged Win
a plurality Of husbands, while In Scandinavia
though they could have hut ono ut u time, they
could divorce him at pleasure, and the curious
pmssage quoted by Sir Walter scott from an leo
landia Saga, how the Chieiess Thordisa attempt
ing 10 stab Eyulf. her husbands guest and friend,
her husband intertered aud inflicted some ehas-
tisement :, Hut Thordisa, %standing before the
door of tho house. called witnesses 10 take notice
that she divorced her husband Borko, assigning
for u cause that he had strock her, aud she would
submit % no such injuries. rherenpon tho house
hold goods were divided betwlxt them" Cutting
a guest's throat withou, Interference Ia u "wo-
man Il right''-a step beyond the ancient customs
Of Hawaii mol. or even the socialist notions of the
&c Down Eaat" land of ,sms,
81. too. with regard To tho Hawaiian songs or
aeiss, II Is objected 10 them that they are heon-
tious aud vulgar, which In nest instances Is I'M
douhteily true; but how was il with the metrieal
rsmances aud ~faas!aur which furnished the chief
literary amusement and Instruction Ia the shfe OF
E,ssopean society, down at least 60 the middle OF
! this iausleenth century one of the best Judges
says al them " Although rroieSsedly written TO
10 reclted IL nohle knights and DANES, they cS-
hihit a nakedness. moi only IN the description, bat
in the turn of the story, which woald nov ban
ish them oven from u tagnio, unless NJ the very
low4st ~ert;er," Those who haye taken she troa-
hie 30 examine into the corresponding manners
and niorals by the light Of ontee,poraneoa doc
amenis haye. We think, usually dropped the his
torio veil over them again with tli as much dis
gus, 40 they would fel in quitting a as!aAsls
heuse, And il is No wonder that tho clergy f
that day. rs Of this, denounced such drafty
~rimingSN
Again. Il is said, the saeSts cannot h poeneal,
kr they seem O. have no regular metre, orrhythm
~ rhyme and yet the early Angip SaSoa pee
try, which certainty has the true pee,ie rsSg in
10, il anything has this sale ef Homer, had 81 tar
A. eaa ~ aetermaOed no roles whaseVer-
" Rhyme they had meme their rhythm see@s e.
have hSa uncertain, aud perhaps the whole p>~~
cry consisted in the adaptation ~ the words "a
s0ae simyle tune, Mr., Hhs and MIR, rrwAmt
Ssa ~ tAiak that the Ss>oa vesse MAS ea(y dis
1ngaiSAsa ,NN@ their lrvSs by a greater po@p ct
diNsiea. and a mese sease(y kiaa ~ mseA,
oas NAaM haraly give a sssser description Of
Hawaiian poetry, ~ tar a anything SS@s - h
kaewne f ia Asala, zoe races, whege iesellixlAle,
seSm NN@ e. reee1as eaN the moSs absurd sad
aes~treps haetes, aud eIea they are 9tserfy ea-
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