Abstract

Can There Be a "Human Race"?

The article presents the author's comments on various theories of human race in different parts of the world. The author says that natives of Australia have preserved enough of their age-long culture to feed endless anthropological controversies, but its life-blood has flowed out. Like the creeks of the Australian desert these cultures have lost their way in the hot sands, never to reach the ocean of world civilization. Moreover, Mongols have conceived and perfected a wonderful art, an art of color, form, movement and spiritual depth, an art sired by the folk and brought forth by individual creators of singular freedom and originality. He has, in ancient China, exalted the ideal of an educated man as the one best fitted to guide the young and steer the state in its arduous course.