The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-18
"THE HEATHER OHINEE."
HON. WIN. MUNGEN
CONTINUED
DKLIVkEEB

Lifelong intercourse with western culh-
walton, added to a collegiate education,
have usually failed to eradicate, Or even
modify, those superstitiOns imbibed in In
fancy or youth, and inevitably fructifying
in a mental soil in which the roots remained
always ready to sprout afresh through la
hereditary tendency, Of which we of Othbr
races, whose oreeds, or prejudices, or modes
Of thought rarely extend beyond few gen
eratiOns can hardly form conceptioA,
unl-ss we reflect that thousand yeaSs
would give Us a retrospect Of thirty gener-
atoms; that while more than sixty genera
tons back these Asiatics had been as fra
" nodded a. now by long lines Of progeai-
tors, extending probably to many hundreds
Of previous generations. HindoOs, within
the two centuries and more Of British ruEe,
have become milionaires they have been
made even knights and baronets by the
British Government they have learus "a
Blackstone by heart, have become familA r
with the classics, have been well Versed i'm
Euclid, and the integral calculus has bdsn
10 them no mystery. Yet they still be-
lieve u caste and dciilement from Inc
touch Of those ingenious barbarians, sucH as
Euclid, Virgil, Newton Blackstone,
Shakespeare, and William Cullen Bryant,
and their descendants and associates OILY
a. far back a. the Sadowa campaigns Of
Prussia against Austria, when an appeal
was made to the New York and LONDON
Bible Societies to improve the opportunity
by flooding Italy with tracts and Bibles,
there appeared notice in the Calcutta pa
pers Of an eminent native, holding, If j re-
member rightly, the rank Of "baboo," who
had made a colossal fortune 10 connection
with the British Government banking, who
bad led every one for years to believe that
ho was a Christian, but had not exactly
made up his mind which Christian deu0m-
nation to Join, WHO had bought large lots
Of most valuable estate with the protested
intention of building and endOwiUg a
church at his DENIS, but who, on the son
trary, left bis wealth to build and endow
heather temple, and to support in atiu-
enoe forty priests to minister perPetuaEy to
the worship Of an ugly little family idol
which for years be had cherished in secret.
Ruthicssly tyrranized over for centuries by
cruel and capricious cOnquerors and des-
pots, they have never resented anything
but encrOachmeut on their prejudices Of
caste, custom or worship. The opposition
which the organized oppression Of thei; ra-
pacious British masters failed to arouse has
been wildly exhibited BY endeavors to sup
press selfimmolation, the burning Of wi
dows. and female infanticide, which v Z see
by the papers is at this time an agirlting
question in India.
The greatest effort this people ever made
tho se-callvd SepOy rebelliOD-waa moi
inspired by any aspirations for freedotl, o.
from patriotism, but through the, to u4I lu-
ji,- EDS 's ri aa.ir- % handle k.&assd
caurdree a. 3.aisrs This u tbc H,ado,
W. a,t.4I at@ Di-a 4ud IN. giols soitam
MACON anu Jogra---.0n 10 TINS lde All ID.
next, and for him bad greater terrors thar
the lash, the rack or the stake. Or tbi
people and the mental phenomena they ex
hibit the intimate and familiar interGours,
Of thousands Of Europeans during two hun
bred years has furnished US with mos am
pie details.
/ have spoken thus much of the Hin
does, and cited them as examples Gf tn,
GENERALIZATION before alluded to, and o
the strentth of caste, and their uEdyin!
preiudices, because the intercourse witt
them has been very intimate by European
and the proofs abundant, and because | an
sustained il the facts by all history On tbt
subject, since the earliest Greek writer's
Their neighbOrs, the Chinese, though diff
fering from them in origin, language, Gus
toms and appearance, present equally
strange characteristics, mental and moral
which would be ineOmprehensible to vi
from our knowledge Of all other races if WI
did not see their counterpart in tbY Hin
docs. They are those of inferiOK races
who, having advanced to the higheat point
Of national selfculture of which tlgsy were
capable, have been stagnating so !. ng in q
standardization and through a many
generations, that what with other faces ar,
operations of the mind, whether rAde anC
simple, o. complex, with the Chin. Sc anc
HindOOs have become instincts of the breed
like those Of certain dogs, which, without
any training, by nature exclusively hunt ;
particular kind Of game, but will bot touch
its flesh in the extreme Of hungeri because
SO many Of their canine progenitors haC
been taught to pursue the quarry, but
vigorously to respect its spOils as ;he mas
ter's exclusive prey.
The Chinese are rather more intellee
tual, less warlike, and have been more
thoroughly and universally cultured than
the IlindOOs. While the plowshare OF
foreign conquest has been often anil rudelv
driven through the masses of these Welding
populations, its impression has been no
more lasting than the furrow o. :he soI
and in all essentials it las made no.cbanpe
The cOnqueror has become lost and merged
in the vast masses Of the conducted er-
cept in the case Of the British in India.
But as in this res Get China, less coveted
and less accessible than India, hbs beon
less disturbed, it has been able more min
terruPtedly to mold such civilization as the
mental capacity and moral tendency Of the
race admitted.
The handful Of rude and unsopkistioated
Tartars, who, two hundred and twenty
nine years ago, conquered this immense
territory, and this vast aggregatios of cor
rupt tyrants. pedants and slaves, fQslnd this
highly organized despotism and lAxurious
GENERALIZATION so alluring to the masters
that they determined to accept it a. it was,
and to boss the concern" as a. western
man would say, with all its ridiculous par.
aPhernalia just as, one hundred ard TWEEN
ty-tbree years before them, the Ottoman
Turks Stepped into the shoes Of the efFete
Byzantine emperOrs,, adopting, to great
extent, their preposterous forms aid cere-
monies, which to this day the Turks arc
unIusty charged with originatingi as well
as charged With causing the ruin and desc