New Britain herald., 1926-02-23
Denies Anglo-Saxonism Was Main Factor h Development N '. 5.

HenFeW ClNlllkduoN, Wltn llb war riors, poets, artists, statesmen, law yers. priests. were tho ripe fruit of the fusion Of the 10 tribes Of Israel. But when tho nation had built high its walls excluding the gentle, and the race had become Homogeneous, and when tho stranger within the gates was anathema, tho downfall Of tho Jew was approaching. But after the race had been scattered over the earth, it was refreshed and renewd with that visor of body and spirit
 which comes from transplanting. travel, associations and intermar-
 riaGe with other tribes, and hence the alert, energetic, dlltgent and
 brilliant type which civilization has evolved, in the modern Jew.
 Isolation Characteristic of Tomb ! Isolation may be splendid some- times, but isolation is characteristic | always Of the tomb Racial seltsh- ness is one of its other names, which | makes vivid for us its baneful infu- | ence when we look at India and | ! China today. Caste Is curse which | holds firm In tet,ers Of stagnation,
 inertia and repression. every nation and every people which submit to ,t. Caste, In Its basest form, was
 the ideal Of the harhartc tribesman'
 II is the racial boycott. And its
 ralignant influence Is found in every
 nation and in every community.
 where class Is set of against class,
 where men and brethren arc array
 e1 in hostile camps by racial, re- ,Ngious, political or industrial divs- lions which teach or permit the eH-
 plo!tation. through selishness' or
 man by his brother man, The curse
 of caste has been with us troul the
 heginning. It blinded the soul and ! scared the brow Of Cain, when ln
 answer to the charge Of murder ne : pleaded, Am I my Brothers keep
 oro' At last there came upon the } earth one who spake as man never snake before His message 10 man" kind was that, not in caste, not III tribal or clannish distinctions, not Tn
 scorn of ones fellows, not Tn oe- -rees founded on racial hatreds or inc arrogance of ecclesiastical fac
 ton, is Gods kingdom to be founn' , hut Tn service to humanity. Inc . pharisee who boastcd his superior
 ity to the publican and thanked Goa
 that he was so much better than other men, drew from the savloui m indictment of caste, such as 10 philosopher or statesman mas ever l uttered throughout the ages me l gospel of peace 10 men Of good VIII, !, which rested upon the equality ol
 ou men, was the first formal proc :. lanation of the principle Of demo , tcracv which human ear had ever
 heard, and for 20 centuries 'h' world has been toiling upward nat
 nclv, nainfully, vet surely toWar0 n realization of that divine ordinance
 The fate which overlook Assyrla Y, Eohvlon and Egypt, the late o , Greece and Rome, may be suhllha' ,, i7ad as the sequence of organic "a :, ciaI snlfshness, of national suomis o sion 10 the curse of caste.
 "Those lessons Of antiquity are em : nhoei7nd hv the rise and fall ot mt
 medieval kingdoms The collapse O . th, old empires was followed oF al A i.roch when the vigorous young neo '' n,ts. from the Hungarian ana Golh,'
 ,orcs+s and the sloDpos Of the Vo' " co and the Don. blending with th' U r,raek and Roman ponulauons y which tls: had overcome mod"'e' moo','''' u ,hrourh fusion, q new race des'n.' |" n nou,otc Europe and possess 'n IT l,rd To be sure the nations "u'' o' upon the ruins of tho emrlres "e'' 'E lae,incd 10 settle into the mou'N . Id .,oete but the mould had been muc h r,,avcd Racial and national anu
 ,,,hics sun existed. but the sp'r>'
 ..nualjty of all men, that IS to VI l- no snirit of Democracy was h''' ''' a !, tho land. A new force haH ro", !" .;n.o ,hc world, a force Wh'cn ,u ,.cornizcd in all the art and all u, i ,1i,,ro,urcs of the feudal era. m rro,is in the frcscos Of Micha' )u irrclo, and in the poetry o' iEI''' UT |, hroathcs through the pages H. ,,cns,in and Aquinas. II 'nhalo' d Tho lives Of Francis Dc H'lf% th Loyola and Xavier.
 na,,n of Fraternity