SKIN OF THE WHITE MAN.

Shannon News, 15 January 1924, Page 4

SKIN OF THE WHITE MAN.

CoBT of ! Superiority in CoU*iuRING. The skin is. the mother of the brain and the spinal cord, and the more a, skih takes from the nervous, system for pigmentation, the lower is the mental development of the individual. So , argued Dr L. Williams in a lecture at .the Royal institute, London, on “Physical and Physiological Foundations of Chsrracter.” The black man, whose skin has to; be supplied with colour, has little nervous energy left for the develop-, merit of art, science and the humani-

fes Flut the 'Wh'ite irian pays a very !i iiigh ’pride tor his superiority, parti. : ’burly in his lack 'of resistance to l " tro'picai diseases. Fine delicate skins nearly ’alway's go With a, fine hyper--7 sensitive nfervous syktefn. ' , When Mi-'Kipli'hg invited us to take up ‘th'e white riian’k burden he scarcely realised the weight of that burden. : The white man Is not by nature adapted to a black man’s country. ! The Briton is a great coloniser.- His ; .white" skin Jhas .’given, liiip. a reserve r of nervous energy, but al his service , ajtid sacrifice is destined to ultimate .defeat by cosmic forces of which he’is i ignorant. . His white skin is at once his glory and his wiping. It confers on him the quality which makes him i a commander, but it makes him almost incapable of , reproducing liis kind ift. a tropical land. .. The United States was originally a i; 'coloured man’s country. White men ;i Went, in large numbers from Europe, ‘and they imported African negroes as f fdaves. The result was that the col■'dured''problem, Which was giving " deep concern to Ainerican statesmen - ‘hlid'to ethnographers. After a ffeW 4 the White woman be. ' j ’doiftbb sterile, while the black wonikn

1 1 renShins ‘disconcertilliily fertile. Ldok at the ‘X'meflcan descendant of British ' his lhnky growth, hkt>Jl ‘tfakil in'tbnation. hypertroego,bhsin’ess push—he hks ! little ‘resemblance to his forefathers. ]The ( is caused by altered cli- : . chah’ges, to which he has Very * -inipf i*f kctly ‘ adapted !■ hirhself. ' “In "tW 'Hbtise of' Commons and in 4 the 'i?ress‘there has been a good deal j "of taik ahotit Emigrating our surplus '' pOpiipfatioh. It that policy is to be I pursued,‘cognisance should be taken of these, 'matters. Haphazard enii/gration can pnly be attended by dis. ejects. Fair-skinned persons should not he sent to a dark man’s country.