Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-04-19

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THE FsEL,se OF RAcs---Thsrs isx-
distinct d3ctTine OF face, and .of stupo-,
thjes i66nded on race. distinct Ifdm Tie
feeling scf ccmaaunit of afeiwfoh, s1d
danf6o fssinsAeliesli&x Sxsioaslltys
ieshHNaxsoverEease. . {tse n0tsoAimef
pls Or easy -fsslpgsss ss,heF.of. stAoses
tNo: IL does not in The ,ssine way liz.
on the sufiace. Ii shdf ia thcssme Wy 4
gsseadedcA obsic<Ss lsets which ~
pas5v toAsesy mani a,adsrsAsslina1sse
The doctriae of Esee IS ssssentistl3 -
asti6cisl a2etFips, 3 llsrpsd aoetEiAes
II is an sHftsehtS from 1Scts which The
msssct man Kind could never have found
outlfDf. the mseIves, facts which, Nntlss
out o distactly learred teachine.p coaldg
never be b-oaght home 10 them, in says
ineligible shape. Now what is the yal-
ue OF such doctrine: Does il follow
that, because il is coniessediy arti6eial.i
because it springs, not from o sponta-e
neous impulse, but from q learned teach
ing ii is, therefore, necessarily FOOLISH.
misch;evous, perhaps anateraf, Nmay,
perhaps, be safer to hold that, like many
other doctrines, MANY other sentiments.
it Is neither universally good nor uni-
versally bad, neither inherently wisc
nor inherently foolish. II may be safer
to hold that il may, like ether doctrines
and sentiments, have range Within
which 1t NAV work for good, while fn'
some other range it may work for evil.
Ii may In short be doctrine which is
neither TO be rashly accepted nor rashly
cast aside, hut one which may need 10
be guided, regulated, modified, accord
ing TO time, place, and circumstances
| am not now called on SO much 10 es-
timatr the practical good and evil OF the
doctrine as 10 work out what the doc
trine itself is, and to try TO explain some
difficulties about it. But must em-
phatically say that nothing can be mose
shallow, nothing more foolish, nothing
more purely sentimental, than the way
Of speaking ofthose who think that they
can simply laugh down or shrek down
any doctrine or sentiment which they
themselves do not understand. \ be-
lsei or feeling which has a practical
effect on the conduct Of great masses
OF men, sometimes on the conduct Of
whole nations, may be very false and
| very mischie, Gus; but it is m every
case great and serious fact, TO be looked
gravely in the face. Men who SIT at
their ease and think that all wisdom is
confined To themselves and their own
clique may think themselves vastly su-
| perior to the first emotions which stirred
! the first Saracens or the fr., Crusaders.
But the emotions are there all The same,
and they do their work all the same
The most highly educated nan IN the
most highly educ ated society cannot
sneer them out OF being with but
or a probably" Aud, among, tho
practical purpo:es which are affected hy
the facts Of race and nationality. We
must, as long as man IS wha, he is, a.
long a. he has not been created atresh
according TO some new scientific pat.
tern, not shrink from reckoning thnSc
generous emotions which. in the pres
eni state OF European feeling. are be-
gining TO bind together the greater IA
well as thc lesser groups OF mankind.
The sympathies Of men are beginning
to reach wider than could have been
dreamed of century ago. The feeling
which was once confined TO the mere
household extended itself 10 the tribe
! or the city. From the tribe or city Il
extended itself 10 the nation: from the
nation it is beginning TO extend itself 10
I q he. hzIn A
extend itself TO the whole race far morc
easily than in others. In some cases
! historical causes have made nations ui
| the same race bitter enemies. whil~
they have made nations OF different ra-
ces friendly allies. The same thing
! happened in earlier DAYS between tribcs
! and cities ofthe same nation. But " hen
| hindrances Of this kind DO not exit tie
. feeling OF race, as something beyonti
the narrower feeling OF nationality, is
beginning 10 be powerful agent in the
! feelings and actions OF men and nation.
| A long series of mutual wrongs. Son-
/ quest and oppression on one eide.
avenged by conquest and oppresslo ION on
! the other side, have made the Siav oil
Poland and the Siav Of Russia the bit
| terness Of enemies. No such hindrarc-
exists 10 stop the fow Of natural and
generous feeling between the Slav oi
Russia and the Slav of the Sou,h.Ea
tern lands. Those whose statemanshi,,
consists in some hand to mouth shin
for the moment, whose wisdom consist.
in refusing 10 look either back to thu
past or onward to the future, Cannot VI.
derstand this great fact Of our timr,;
and what they cannot understand ihrv
mock ST. But the fact exists and dc'~<
its woik in spite of them. And If doe.
it. work none the less because in some
cases the feeling Of sympathy Is aws..
ened BY claim of Kindred, where. IN
the sense OF the Psychologist or IL
genea.ogi<t, there is no kindred at all.
The practical view, historical or poliii-
cal, will accept as members of this or
! that race or nation many members whom
the Psychologist would shut out, wi1on.
the English lawyer would shut out, but
whom the Roman lawyer would glsdly
welcome 10 every privilege ofthe siasr
on W hich they were grated. The line ci
the Scipios, of the Csssrs. and ofthc
Antoaines was continued by adoption,
and for all practical purposes the nations
Of the earth have agreed TO follow
the example. set them by their master.
Edrard i. Ereemea. IN the Coafeers-
r~y Rerier. So.