THE HOME OF A NEW SUB-RACE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3014, 27 February 1917, Page 5

THE HOME OF A NEW SUB-RACE

(AUSTRALIA. AND NEW. ZEALAND,

i The following extract from Mr. LeadSbeater's book, "Australia, and New : usealand—the Home of a New SubiiKace,', is of distinct interest. When t'Mr. Leadbeater landed in Australia pearly two years'.ago ho Tvas much tetruck with the fact that a new race pvas appearing, similar to that so evi•Went in America 'to-day. Hβ says:— !■ "I had not expected that because I mad no. information that it was to comSmence simultaneously ia other countries, I had: supposed that it would .■begin in America and spread gradually Jover the rest of the world, as other traces and sub-races have done before, gut I saw at once that here were chilHren and young .people of a new type among you' in Australia and New Zealand, particularly in Queensland; that jthero were children who were quite dei&utely not English children, nor jScpteh,.nor Irish. They were clearly Tcnldren of a now type; not exactly, ttiio American type, Dot identical with it, but closely resembling it—obviously *he same thing, but with a variation that-may-vell.be due to■• the cliniato and surroundings generally. It became t At onoe ovideut that this new venture, (the beginning of a now sub-race, was Pot confined" to America but was taking place simultaneously in this other !»ew country. . ■ • "To an individualwho is studying fraoes and sub-races; this is a striking fact—a fact which shows that those among whom it is taking .place have Sn immense and splendid opportunity, rout also unquestionably a great responsibility. Clearly if is necessary- that ul 6 - s ™ uld understand exactly • what Jthis thing means, and what we can do gach one of us to help along this new development. In America, thero'are 60 ■taany different races that patriotism as Wβ have known it,iu the older countries of Europe is only beginning definitely to exist. In earlier days there ,-wa-s patriotism of State rather than ;of country, but gradually the -whole people is welding itself into one mighty ; race,.and. the very fact that a new '.type is arising, a new body to .express ithis new variety of soul, will tend ; m6re than anything else, to. bind the Country into one, as by degrees the. itaembers of this new race are born, ffhe same thing clearly ought to happen here a a soon as. people realise that a pew and distinctly Australasian type is pming to birth. ■".... \ ! "Those who bear the stamp of this inew race may be born anywhere, in lany family, Bo that perhaps in two or three generations the whole country ■will consist of this now race. Perhaps ; Bot quite the whole country, but what in Europe we should call.the aristocracy of the country; that is to- say, the best ■types—those that are most characterisjtic of the new race—will bear these new 'bodies. We can hardly say yet what ■the principal characteristics will he, , .hut they.will certainly include strong mil, great' intellectual, development, ■iand ready impressibility."