The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-13
4 LIVING FACTOR
Racial Instincts Deep Rooted and
Aggressive.
DISTINCT POLITICAL FORCE
Begin With Lower Animals and
to Reason-ln Civilization.

The deep and powerful racial in
stincts are inherent and are not the
result of education.
Professor Shaler says:
I'm the discussion of human motives
we must begin our inquiry among the
lower animals; there alone can we see
how the foundations of the human
mind are laid"
"The fundamental motives, the blind
impulses, which drive men to action,
in which reason takes little or no part,
these are not, properly speaking, hu-
man qualities at all. They took their
shape and attained their power before
the human stage of our life began,
but they are far more firm set and
self determined than the higher ac-
QUESTIONS of the mind.
Several passions, hunger rage, the
wild impulses of flight and chase, to-
gether with reason, are in curious
association in the human mind. The
stronger elements of passion work
more quickly than the higher ones of
reason"
Among the lower animals, instinc-
tive habits are conspicuous in almost
every part of the field. Next after the
several passions, the instinct for food,
and the parental instinct, we must
place the hatred of the neighbor, pro-
vided the neighbOr tresspasses on their
privileges"
when we leave the inferior levels
of life through which man passed, and
come to man himself, we find in the
lower races an almost precise repeti-
ton of the conditions Of the lower
animals: the only variations are the
effect of his more discerning mind.
Even in the best adjusted states, it is
only the more cultivated people, whose
sympathies are so enlarged, that are
ready to extend to unseen men any
consideration.
ct is easy to perceive that the capa-
city of sympathy, the power of loving
the fellow man in strange aspect,
is rare even in our own cultivated
people.
THE capacity for rage against the
opponent everywhere lies below the
smooth surface of our modern civili-
zation, as the blood beneath the skin.
Under excitement, a civilized people
will become the brutal savages and a
mob. The mobs of Paris, during many
revolutions, the mobs of strikers in
England and America show the latent
ferOcity of men. The great problem
SNf Nl<,.r l, s<rI,~
qualities of sympathy to all"
Whatever sets men apart limits the
boundary of sympathy It is the old
animal instinct. "To wear different
hat is to have the tattoo in different
lines and it will mark the bounds Of
outer curves in the lower kinds of
man; speaking a different dialect will
serve in higher station
The prejudice of commercial fashion
is so strong in London, that an honest
upright, responsible person, without a
silk hat, was open to the suspicion
only few years ago Of being an irres-
pOnsible person The Wisest man with
a soft hat had little standing Dress
ing in a checked suit destroyed credit.
The Bank of Esgland would not per-
nit a few years ago a clerk to wear
a moustache, although it is difficult
TO connect the checked suit, or the soft
| hat or a mOustache with fidelity or
| intelligence in the discharge of duty
The intense prejudice of the British
| and French towards each other, pre-
vents them from admitting that either
| race has virtue or generosity. No
| Frenchman would admit that an
| EngliShman lived who was fit to govern
| the French people
| Professor Shaler continues: "The
| Chinaman is member of very cuI-
| tivated race. He is probably more cul-
| tiyated than the ordinary people of our
own kind, but our failure to see in
| him. ourselves, our own motives anC
| trials, makes an end of al feeling OF
! brotherhood, so far as the feeling de
| pends upon the senses
In Hong Kong and Singapore. where
| the Chinese merchants live in a stvlt
Of extravaganza, quite beyond the Brit.
| lsh merchants, they are regarded az
! intruding rivals OF another race.
| These racial dislikes are seen in The
antipathies of the whites and negroe,
in the United States. AS a rule, ;
negro is not permitted to enter thu
| theatre Of northern city. or if he is
is placed by himself. Christian negroe,
are not permitted in the majority q
| northern churches to occupy pews will
! the whites. Riots have taken pIac,
IN northern towns, because negro
children were allowed by the author
tiles to enter white schools. On the