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pure-blooded natives, left upon the Hawaiian Islands. Their
moral degeneracy has kept pace with their physical. Though
nominally Christianized, their " easy virtue " is patent in the
flocks of half-castes
that throng the city and mountain districts.
If missionaries have not filled the brains of these poor
heathen with intelHgence, and exalted moral principles, they
have managed to fill their own purses.
Morals are at a low ebb. Many white men— Germans,
French, Portuguese, and some Americans—live with native
women unmarried. This is considered no social disgrace,
since commenced many years
ago by distinguished officials.
Color is no bar to office or position.
The government of these islands is a constitutional monarchy.
Queen Emma, who traveled through Europe and our
country a few years since, became queen by marriage.
Kalakaua is the present king.
He has a fine literary taste,
and seeks this class of men as privy councilors.
Though belief or unbelief in no way affects the truth, still
the belief of a man, if held in earnest, and woven into the
spiritual frame of mind, must necessarily exert a controlling
influence upon the springs of action, and leave its impress
upon the life. The natives originally believed in good and
bad spirits, in a future life, and the return of their departed
from the land of shades. Their idols were the images of
deified mortals. Dr. Damon, a resident of Honolulu, or some
of the Polynesian groups, for thirty years, assured us that
these aborigines all believed in a future existence when first
visited by missionaries.
in the souls of all tribes and races. •
The belief bubbles up spontaneously
HAWAHAN SPIRITISM.
Candid research will ultimately force the concession that
the lowest and most degraded tribes have deep-rooted ideas
of gods, spirits, and a future existence.
Otherwise, they are
not men, but monkeys, apes, baboons, chimpanzees, gorillas !
Man devoid the cranial organs of hope, veneration, conscien-