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Although Mr. Sutton's phraseology is somewhat strong,
his arguments are sound and unanswerable.
I now pass to some less controversial aspects of my theme,
and note a praiseworthy custom that is practically unknown in the Far East.
I refer to the habit of international marriages which are not only common
in cosmopolitan America but are of daily occurrence in Europe also,
among ordinary people as well as the royal families of Europe,
so that nearly all the European courts are related one to the other.
This is a good omen for a permanent world-peace. There have been
some marriages of Asiatics with Europeans and Americans,
and they should be encouraged. Everything that brings
the East and West together and helps each to understand the other better,
is good. The offspring from such mixed unions inherit the good points
of both sides. The head master of the Queen's College in Hongkong,
where there are hundreds of boys of different nationalities studying together,
once told me that formerly at the yearly examination
the prizes were nearly all won by the Chinese students,
but that in later years when Eurasian boys were admitted,
they beat the Chinese and all the others, and generally came out the best.
Not only in school but in business also they have turned out well.
It is well known that the richest man in Hongkong is a Eurasian.
It is said that the father of Aguinaldo, the well-known Philippine leader,
was a Chinese. There is no doubt that mixed marriages of the white
with the yellow races will be productive of good to both sides.
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