THE COMING AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2194, 8 March 1881, Page 3

THE COMING AUSTRALIAN.

This is the title of a remarkabla papor in the "Yktorian Review," in whioh Mr James B\ Hogan maintains that the tendency of young Australia is decidedly downwards. The thrte main characteristics of the native Austral* 1 appear to be (1) an inordinate love of field sports; (2), a very decided disinclination to recognise the autho-ity of parents and superiors j and (3), a grievous dislike to mental effort. Mr Hogan says that nine out of every ten native Australians spend all their leisure either in cricket or football The insubordination of the Auitralian "larrikin" heattributes largely to the extent to which State education takes the place of parental training j Bnd, whatever its cause, there is no doubt that the proportion of juvenile crime in Victoria is abnormally large. His evidence is lest conclusive as to the dislike which he thinks he discerns to all mental effort. He sums up his conclusions by saying that " the coming inhabitant of the Southern continent will be peaceably disposed and sportively inclined ; rather selfish in conduct and secular in practice; oontented and easy going, but non-intellectual and tasteless." In other words, remarks the " Pall Mall Budget" Mr Hogan thinks that the Australian of the future will aink to the level of the Sandwich Islander.