Ill 



MUSINGS ON MANNING'S 'OLD 

 NEW ZEALAND'^ 



[Reprinted from Temple Bar, December 1877.] 



As the individual grows so grows the race, and as 

 the individual dies so dies the race ; but, though 

 both must certainly die more or less undeveloped 

 (human perfection not being yet quite attained), 

 both die at very different stages of development — 

 some individuals going so soon that they can hardly 

 be said to have attained the true status of individu- 

 ality," and some races vanishing before they have 

 developed out of the native form. One wonders 

 whether these individuals or races who depart so 

 early that their proper epitaph would be the old 

 question — 



' If so soon that I am done for, 

 I wonder what " in the name of creation " I was begun for ? ' 



are extinguished altogether, ' correlated ' into every- 

 thing else, like that popular plaything ' Force,' or 



1 Old New Zealand, being Incidents of Native Customs and Charactei 

 in the Old Times. By a Pakeha Maori. London, 1863. 



2 Civilisation is the individualisation of the individual. 



