THE FUTURE AUSTRALIAN RACE.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 904, 9 April 1878, Page 2

THE FUTURE AUSTRALIAN RACE.

In fiis curious lifctlo brochure (says tin; < Australasian) Mr Marcus Clark Las sought to ghow that the fuluro

of a race, at auy given epoch, can bo read m the physhgnomy^of'i's present. He reviews a large^mmberi of English historical aa £$ypicar portraits, lauging fronT; the^tivne of the TtubrS down to thepre^nt diy, with tha view of showing'jthat the '! V.UIOU3 periods shared m a cbmuion character which naturally changed m passi ng fro m period to anoth'er.° He also speculates on the manner said extent m which (he race's physiognomy is affected by external conditious,^ food, climate, and habits of I iff. Freely applying tha principles thus collected to the future of Australia Mr Clark foresees a ' luxurious and stupendous civilisation" iv Queensland and the northern islands. ' All beneath this line will bo a Republic, having the mean climate and, m eou-:eq -leucs, the development of Greece. The intellectual capital of t,his Republic will be m Viq oria. Tho • faahionablo and luxurious capital on the shore of Sydney Harbou r. The go verniug capital m New Zealand.' H o discourses ou the probable physical and mental characteristics of the race developed under theso conditions, and sums up his results as follows : — ' The conclusion of all this ig, therefore, that m another hundred years the average Australasian vill be a tall, coarse, strong-jawed, greedy, pushing, talented man, ' excelling m swimming 1 and -horaymaiiship. His religion will be a form of Presbyterianism; Ills national policy a democracy tempered by the rate of exchange. His wife will be a thin, narrow^ woman, very fond of dress and idleness, caring little for h,r children, but without sufficient brain power to sin with Z3st. iutive hundred years— unless recruiting fr.jtn foreign nations— the breed will be wholly extinct; but m that five hundred years it will have changed the face of nature, and swallowed up all our contemporary civilisation.' The subject, ia treated not so much iv a scientific as m a merely speculative manner, liub the little pamphlet will be of interest to all who are inclined to bestow a f i w minutes' thought on the dim po3sibiiilies of the future of the great people we are founding m these broad regions of the south.