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Is it any wonder then that these "The Maori "Chief:-"Tell him "that by our custom when the wife people have shown the symptoms of of a Maori becomes pregnant, her the caged animal. Authorities on THE WHITE MAN'S. BURDEN.
"husband coases
to have Inter- the physiology of sex have remark- "course with her: that she is care-ed on the curious sensitiveness of [The Clash of Culture and the "fully put away until her child is the reproductive system. Animals of the wild which seem in other Contact of Races by G. Hborn and baptised. Pitt-Rivers George Routledge "Tell him that by this custom ways healthy enough simply will and Sons, Ltd, London. 18/-the Maori was enabled to grow a not reproduce in their nett.]
"race of chiefs, of noble and hand-ditions. They gradually fade away Every decade or so, more or less "some men and women, physically and pine. Listen to the articulate race of utterance from the aged Maeri. silently, there slips from the press "and mentally strong, a
"Tell He can put into words what the a great work-not one of the best rangatira and tohunga.
ahow by ito. sellers or publishers' 'catches': him" (Paora had now risen to his zebra these come with flourish of trum- full height and his voice, vibrated manner-
"Once numerous, now diminish- pets. But the great ones come, with the passion and eloquence of like the Kingdom of Heaven; not racial pride) "that whereas the "ing and dispirited, our women no children, and with observation. Indeed soms of "birds of the air and the beasts of "longer bear many those of previous decades, The i
"the gladen cease to pair when the "our villages are emptying. White Origin of Species, Physics and "female la fertilised and for long men brought us wonderful things "Intervals, to my certain knowledge-white bread which looked good, Politice, etc.. seem scarcely to have the Pakeha (the white man) with "but when eaten swelled and blew been assimilated yet, or are, like
"his model one-wife aystem con- "out our stomache, and the origin of species anathema or "tinues to occupy the same apart "sick-he also brought us diseases on the Inder-Expurgatorius.
The Clash of Culture is an arrest- "ments till within a vew few nights "which killed many of
"of the birth of a child. Such a "brought us Christianity, and we ing and penetrating study of a very practice as that is to the Maori "accopted it--but he broke perplexing problem. But the care- ful analysis of the problem, the "moat. abhorrent, and I will not "apu-and our mana left us. Bociological and psychological al-advocate it, come what may." lotment of blame so far as there (2) Tapu is any, may all curtail rather than increase the popularity of the book, People like to read what they wish to be told. And some of this Is not very pleasant reading, for the Europeant.
The Great Sociological Problem. Walter Bagehot has left us a very shrewd remark which might almost be taken as the fundamen- tal query of this whole problem: -"Savages did not formerly waste "away before the classical nations, now before modern "an they do "civilised nations."
Mr. Pitt-Rivers' special sphere of study is with the Polynesian and Melanesian peoples. The frontispiece is the figure of a lone ly girl from Aug Island with the inscription 'where the sun sets on a vanishing race. Here is a group of peoples, the Polynesian and Micronesian in particular, who are vanishing away before our very eyes. What is the cause or causes [of this?
Pitt-Rivera
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We can heartily recommend..this book to all those Intereated, in the sociological problems which face the white races.
BIRTH-CONTROL.
Not only has the native's mar- ringe system bean interfered with, his sorcery, his tapu, and conse- quently the power and Influence of the Chief have been undermined.
Mr. Cecil Palmer has just Listen to Mr. Best, one of the published a very interesting book greatest, living authorities on the on "Some More Medical Views On Maori:The coming of mizeion- Birth Control," which is edited by "arics and other Europeans to New the well-known authority
on this "Zealand led to the breakdown of subject, Normun Haire, Ch.M., "the institution of Topu, and the M.B. and contains articles by "weakening of the influence of the eleven authors, including the "chiefa. The missionaries atrove. Editor. The various authors are "to abolish tapu, and did so to a all well-qualified distinguished "great extent. They destroyed it members of the Medical Profession, "as a corrective force, as a highly including Sir James Barr, Sir "useful element in the life of the William Arbuthnot Lane, Mr. Aleck "people. Apparently no missionary Bourne, Miss Jane Lorimer Haw-
ever studied or understood
thorne, Mias Jacobs, and Dr. "remarkable Institution, and, 80 Hamblin Smith, and many others. "they knew not the harm they Dr. Haire informa us that in "were doing. In the end we saw 1926 Sir James Marchant publish- "the Maori, like a rudderless shiped a book "Medical View on Birth "drifting passively, aimlessly, hope Control," which consisted of nine "lessly, down the stream of life." articles by doctors, all of which
(3) Sorcery.
were definitely opposed to Birth Control. Even in this book, one or two only are really opposed to it, whilat the majority are indifferent to it. The layman is given the
this
Mr. One by one
Sorcery went in the same way as analyses the various causes usual tapu. It was forbidden by the law of the white man. And what was ly given clothes; Intoxicating drink; head-hunting; sexual vices; to take the place of the native Infanticide; &c. &c.-but they sorcerer? The white sorcerer, or impression that the medical pro- don't account for it.
missionary. He is only a poor in- effective shadow of their own. But whereas the native aorcerer is imprisoned or punished, "the mis- "sionary is given by law the "monopoly and sole right to prac "tise what from the native's point "of view is only an alien and "competitive magie-a magle which "has for its object not the preserva-
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fession consider the birth-control Some have Insisted that the
movement to be a moral and phy Polynesian was a dying race long
sical danger to the community. The Medical Pro- before the European came on the
This is not so. scene, and that his doom was seal
fession is sectioned Into three ed. But a careful examination of
classen in this direction: (1) those definitely in favour of the evidences of population in the
who are various islands when they first
birth-control; (2) those who are unmistakable, that physical and considered of came in contact with the European
definitely against it; and (8) those mental health are
doc. shows that this is not the case.
who are indifferent. To the first first importance. Religious
trine and so forth, are not enter. old fashioned In fact it affords overwhelming "tion but the loosening of all clan class belong proof that the population in most "bonds. Neither is the compari- doctors of the early Victorian era, tained. Dr. Haire bases his philo of the islands was inclined to ex-"son merely captions. The mis- as is seen by the details given in sephy of life on reason, and not on ceed the optimism, and that the "sionary professes in many ways Who's Who of the writers select-auperstition: he states that he is a systems of infanticide, &c., were "to work precisely the same classed by Sir James. They include Rationalist, and a Hedonist. He carefully introduced methods to "of wonders, as the native sorcerer. Scharieb, Horder, Crichton-Miller, then writes: "It is essential for the keep the population at an optimum "He blesses the armies and the Giles, and others....all born be understanding of my views
Birth Control, that the reader where the food-supply was neces- "Government of the white people in tween 1845 and 1885..
The Editor in this volume has should clearly grasp that my aim is "his churches: he effects cures by sarily limited, But now
all this is changed. "enjoining faith just as the native definitely selected his writers from the attainment, and the increase of The young women are childless; "sorcerer dues by reciting magical those definitely in favour of Birth human health and happiness." The errors of not keeping strictly to the old ones, listless. The young "formulae; he forgives sins and Control, and those who occupy an
medical facts are Austria, South Africa, Italy and men have lost their interest in life; "grants indulgences; he tells the intermediate position, as he con- scientific and and the old ones simply wait for "natives of the miracles worked by siders this a companion volume to emphasized, and he points out com- Australia, shew that in most mar- death. The problem is neither "priests and saints in the old days; Sir James Marchant's book, where mon faults in this direction among riages some attempt at contracep social nor sexual; hygienic or "he blesses the crops and invokes the inclination is obviously opposed well known and respected authors tion is made either regularly, or on this Subject. Various authors intermittently. Then he gives us a sartorial. It rather seems to belong "supernatural aid to, stay plagues to birth-control.
It is admitted that none of the are severely criticised for trying very interesting personal illustra to that deep psychological stratrum "and epidemics; and also, like the from which all of these flow. A "native sorcerer, he receives and writers has had any considerable to fit in various views with their tion of the unhappiness of large kind of racial megrims has eaten "even asks for offerings." (page experience of contraceptive prac- own pet fancies, and often con- families, described in a very tell- tradicting their own statements in ing way, he himself being one of a tice, although out the vitals of the people and 205).
large family. left them an etiolated and infecund
tinguished members of the Medical different parts of their Work. It Despair and Sexual Impotence.
to remove is pointed out that. Giles says that
He states that infantile mortali- With the social function of the Profession. However,
ty increases with Increase of Several things seem to be con-sorcerer la bound up the power of this objection, there are included in fibroid tumours of the tributory causes of this:
the chief. Thus the whole bonds this book, four doctors who have occur only during sterility; a state family, and points out the distinc
the (1) The prohibition of polygamy. of clanship are gradually loosened had a wide and long experience of ment which has not been proved, tion between birth rate, and
and which on investigation appears number of children born. Polygamy, or to be more car- and decay. In the wake of the mis- Birth. Control: they
to be the reverse; that it is more
Dr. Haire describes carefully, an come a large stonary has
the trader. A Jacoba, reet, polygyny has had following as a marriage system new economic system, exploitation Hawthorne, and Norman Haire. common in married women, some ideal, almost fool-proof pessary, THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. among the great masses of mankind. of labour, foreign laws and regula For the rest, Sir Arbuthnot Lane is time after pregnancy. He con- which has been in uso on the demns the view that contraception Continent for forty years. Full But when the white man and the tionahas come to 'birth. "It has a Surgeon; Sir James Barr, a
produces sterility, and gives good details as to how to these
use it are are weil missionary come in contact with "destroyed his tribal life, the Physician; and
of birth-control: reasons.
given. `: polygamous peoples they insiat, "prestige of his chiefs, his morali- known advocates
As regards contraceptives, Dr. Mr. Aleck Bourne, A
It is definitely stated that volun- within the limits of their sway, on "ty, his pleasures, his beliefs, his while
tary sterilisation by operation is "hopes, the cement of his society Gynaecologist; Dr. Edar, a Paycho- Haire states that there are at least
a Medical a hundred different kinda, some of legal in England, providing the its ostensible abandonment.
Here Is an account of Arch- "and the very meaning of his life. logist; Dr. Goddard, deacon Maunsell trying to instil "It has, with clumsy dogmatism Officer of Health; Dr. Hamblin which may or may not be harmful. patient is legally capable of giving that it must not be thought that aised that such should not be carried his monogamy into a Maori Chief. "meddled with his sex life, destroy-Smith, a Criminologist; and ProHe points out in no uncertain tone, consent, but it is carefully emphas
Crew, a Biologist, and Archdeacon Maunsell (through an "ed his tapy system, and freed him fessor
non-use of which Eugeniat; who have not taken a large family, means
out without adequate reason. Interpreter) "Say to Paora (the "only from the old fears
contraceptives; and the arominent
In Part Two of this volume, Sir "Chief) that the bad custom of "made him loyal to his corporate previous part in any "having two wives is still going on "group. It has left him with new controversy, now "alr" their views. means a regular use of them: he James Barr condemns the absurd amongst his people and that I "fears and suspicions, and a help- Three of the contributers are in backs up his statements with facts. views of the Church, which he con His wide study of this Subject siders unkind, and Irrational. He "want him to give me. a solemn "less incapacity to control his own the seventies, one in the sixties, in Great Britain, the United states that the thought of possible "assurance that he will in futuro" "destiny, while It bids him mimic two in the fifties, one in the forties, states of America, Canada, Ger-pregnancy often, makes certain “do everything in his power to stop the culture-forms he can never and three in the thirties. The
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