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all and are even allowed freely to patronise our 

 women who, hypnotised partly by their personal 

 attractions, and partly by their jewels, submit with a 

 wonderfully good grace. Sometimes even the marriage 

 ceremony is entered on, though seldom without sub- 

 sequent repentance as far as one may judge. East 

 of Suez, as all the world knows, between the two 

 colours a great gulf is fixed. There may be and very 

 often is mutual admiration between high types of each 

 race. Occasionally there is friendship ; more there 

 can never be. Whether this barrier be a good thing 

 or a bad thing is capable of argument from every 

 point of view, but one thing can hardly be denied and 

 that is that without it there could have been no 

 Empire of India. The stability of this Empire is 

 threatened, ever so slightly, not by the pin-pricks of 

 such men as Keir Hardie and the insignificant class of 

 white and coloured idiots who listen to his babbling, 

 but by the ever-growing numbers of Eurasians and 

 the difficulties that they present. One cannot but feel 

 that Nature made one of her few mistakes when she 

 rendered fertile the cross between black and white, 

 and so gave rise to all the trouble that this fertility has 

 produced. 



In the Protectorate we are faced with one slight 

 ramification of the trouble in our schools. Europeans 

 refuse to send their children to any school where they 

 may associate with black or Eurasian children. On 

 the other hand, the slightest touch of white blood 

 causes the Eurasian to hold an intense scorn for 

 the pure Indian. At present an attempt is made to 

 face the problem by sending all children of Eurasian 

 extraction to the Indian School, or rather by refusing 

 them admission to the European school. This 



