The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-01-14
Racial Instincts Deep Rooted and
Aggressive.
DISTINCT POLITICAL FORCE
Begin With Lower Animals and
Conspicuous in Man-Not Subject
to Reason-In Civilization.

result of education.
Professor Shaler says:
In 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, hui
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-
yided 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.
1T 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-
cation, as the blood beneath the skin.
Under excitement, a civilized people
will become the brutal savages and
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
of modern life is to extend the higher
qualities of sympathy to all"
Whatever sets men apart limits the
boundary of sympathy. 1t is the old
animal instinct ITO wear a 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
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 checked suit destroyed credit.
The Bank of Esgland would not per-
NIT few years ago clerk to wear
mOustache, although it is difficult
to connect the checked suit, or the soft
hat or 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
o Englishman lived who was fit to govern
the French people
Professor Shaler continues: "The
Chinaman is a member of a very cuI-
tivated race. He is probably more Gull
uYated than the ordinary people of our
own kind, but our failure to see in
him, ourselves, our own motives and
trials, makes an end of all feeling of
brotherhood, so far as the feeling de-
ponds upon the senses.
In Hong Kong and Singapore, where
the Chinese merchants live in a STYLE
of extravaganza, quite beyond the Brit
ish merchants, they are regarded as
fntruding rivals of another race.
These racial dislikes are seen in the
anupathies of the whites and negroes
IN the United States AS a rule, a
negro is not permitted to enter the
theatre of a northern city. or if he is.
is placed by himself Christian negroes
are not permitted in the majority of
northern churches to occupy pews with
the whites. Riots have taken place
IN northern towns, because negro
children were allowed by the author
ltles TO enter white schools. On the
other hand, the negroes prefer to keep
TO themselves as rule. Gail Hamilton
cites the case of a church. erected by
northern settlers in Virginia, to which
the negroes were invited, but they
declined, preferring their own inferior
house.
The Independent On. " recently said
that the Negro Presbyterians of the
South, have of their ows choice. sonar
ated from the white Presbyterians
The whites like it and the negroes pre-
fer it. The racial instincts work even
at the foot of the Throne. The In
dependent adds: 1T is very nice. even
if it is not Christian
1t is well known that a youne
Englishman, living in the States is
excluded from any political promotion.
as a rule, simply because he is a Brit
Usher. An American would fare the
same way in England, or France.