Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR AGAINST WHITE WORLD-SUPREMACY THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR AGAINST WHITE WORLD-SUPREMACY BY LOTHROP STODDARD, A.M., PH.D. (Harv.) AUTHOR OF "THE STAKES OF THE WAR," "PRESENT-DAY EUROPE: ITS NATIONAL STATES OF MIND," "THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO," ETC. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MADISON GRANT CHAIRMAN NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY; TRUSTEE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; COUNCILLOR AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF "THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE" NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS _All rights reserved_ Published April, 1920 Reprinted June, July, September, October, 1920; February, 1921 PREFACE More than a decade ago I became convinced that the key-note of twentieth-century world-politics would be the relations between the primary races of mankind. Momentous modifications of existing race-relations were evidently impending, and nothing could be more vital to the course of human evolution than the character of these modifications, since upon the _quality_ of human life all else depends. Accordingly, my attention was thenceforth largely directed to racial matters. In the preface to an historical monograph ("The French Revolution in San Domingo") written shortly before the Great War, I stated: "The world-wide struggle between the primary races of mankind--the 'conflict of color,' as it has been happily termed--bids fair to be the fundamental problem of the twentieth century, and great communities like the United States of America, the South African Confederation, and Australasia regard the 'color question' as perhaps the gravest problem of the future." Those lines were penned in June, 1914. Before their publication the Great War had burst upon the world. At that time several reviewers commented upon the above dictum and wondered whether, had I written two months later, I should have held a different opinion. As a matter of fact, I should have expressed myself even more strongly to the same effect. To me the Great War was from the first the White Civil War, which, whatever its outcome, must gravely complicate the course of racial relations. Before the war I had hoped that the readjustments rendered inevitable by the renascence of the brown and yellow peoples of Asia would be a gradual, and in the main a pacific, process, kept within evolutionary bounds by the white world's inherent strength and fundamental solidarity. The frightful weakening of the white world during the war, however, opened up revolutionary, even cataclysmic, possibilities.