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Sport 26: Autumn 2001

V First of All the Nature of Racism Must be Understood

V First of All the Nature of Racism Must be Understood

1
There seems to be a certain incompatibility
between the tastes of the savage
and the pursuits of the civilised man.

This, by a process more easily marked than explained,
leads itself to the extinction of the former;
nowhere has this shown itself more visibly than in Polynesia.

2
They die when our diseases touch them—
as if superior germs reside within our stalwart skins.
Our vices, too, they cannot contain—
alcohol, women, the pipe.