THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1908. SHALL WE LOSE INDIA?

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3006, 1 October 1908, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1908. SHALL WE LOSE INDIA?

Will England retain India? Such is the title of an article by M. Alexander Ular in "La Revue." The writer begins his article by saying that Asiatics are more individualistic than Europeans. The great psychological difference between Asiatics and Europeans lies in the fact that Europeans are essentially enWous, while Orientals accept in principle the status quo because they believe it to bo the result of a fatal evolution. Asiatics see in the strict application of codified laws an intolerable constraint and injustice. They have never organised a republic, because in it, power is necsssarily impersonal, and they support a despotism • because in it power h personal. To them the State is the man in power, law is the judge, and prosperity the capitalist. They know nothing of pity and charity in the Christian sense, because everyone gets what he is supposed to deserve; and envy, the supreme stimulus of Westerns, is unknown to them. From the European point of view British rule, which has restored order in the peninsula, has been a beneficial and prodigious work. But

while such a peace may be desirable for the lower social ..classes, these | people do not represent the live moral forces of a nation, and the writer considers that British rule in India has been detrimental to the superior castes. From the moral point of view the Brahmin does not differ much from the Mussulman, and the English are wrong in thinking the latter superior. But the day will surely come, says M. Ular, when the Mussulmans, who now number only seventy millions, will be strong enough to strike a *reat blow, and British rulers will find their forces insufficient to rule the new politicoreligious power.