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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
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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 
