The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyGrant, Madison
History
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Grant, Madison
Ethnology -- Europe
Australia and New Zealand, where the natives have been virtually
exterminated by the whites, are developing into communities of pure
Nordic blood and will for that reason play a large part in the future
history of the Pacific. The bitter opposition of the Australians and
Californians to the admission of Chinese coolies and Japanese farmers is
due primarily to a blind but absolutely justified determination to keep
those lands as white man’s countries.
In Africa, south of the Sahara, the density of the native population
will prevent the establishment of any purely white communities, except
at the southern extremity of the continent and possibly on portions of
the plateaux of eastern Africa. The stoppage of famines and wars and the
abolition of the slave trade, while dictated by the noblest impulses of
humanity, are suicidal to the white man. Upon the removal of these
natural checks Negroes multiply so rapidly that there will not be
standing room on the continent for white men, unless, perchance, the
lethal sleeping sickness, which attacks the natives far more frequently
than the whites, should run its course unchecked.
In South Africa a community of mixed Dutch and English extraction is
developing. Here the only difference is one of language. English, being
a world tongue, will inevitably prevail over the Dutch patois called
“Taal.” This Frisian dialect, as a matter of fact, is closer to old
Saxon or rather Kentish than any living continental tongue and the blood
of the North Hollander is extremely close to that of the Anglo-Saxon of
England. The English and the Dutch will merge in a common type just as
they have in the past two hundred years in the Colony and State of New
York. They must stand together if they are to maintain any part of
Africa as a white man’s country, because they are confronted with the
menace of an enormous black Bantu population which will drive out the
whites unless the problem is bravely faced.
The only possible solution is to establish large colonies for the
Negroes and to allow them outside of them only as laborers and not as
settlers. There must be ultimately a black South Africa and a white
South Africa side by side or else a pure black Africa from the Cape to
the cataracts of the Nile.
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