RACIAL QUALITIES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5079, 24 January 1927, Page 3

RACIAL QUALITIES.

NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.

EACH GOOD FOR THE OTHER.

Tha each and every individual nation has some characteristic qualities not possessed by others, and that these qualities are of service to mankind, is the opinion of Professor Ernest Wood, Principal and Professor of Physics of the Hyderabad Scind College, India, who is on a tour of the worl,d studying the races of mankind, .with a view to writing a book on this ■Subject. Professor Wood, who is at present in Wellington, pointed out in J an interview recently that the Japanese had developed art 'faculties, and the German people the quality of patience. Though it was an Englishman who first discovered the wonderful properties of coal-tar, it was German patience which developed its possibilities, and patiently experimented until they extracted some hundreds of properties, including the valuable dyes now used by the world, from coal-tar. It was the fighting quality inherent in Irishmen which gave Britain her best generals, while Scotland provided the Empire with statesmen. "If we could have a working understanding amongst the nations,” said Professor Wood, “that each is good for the other, we would have a working basis for national agreement's. Every nation should be encouraged to develop its own characteristics.”