The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 4, January 1907Various
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The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 4, January 1907
Various
American literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Southern States -- Periodicals
Out of the vast mass of evidence the limits of this paper will not permit
more than a few opinions additional, from travelers and men of science,
in each instance wholly disinterested in American politics, being natives
and residents of other countries.
David Page, of Edinburgh, F. N. S. & C., says: “However much mistaken
philanthropy may argue to the contrary, there can be but little doubt
that the Ethiopian, or black man of Africa, is inferior both to Mongol
and Malay, and still more to the Caucasian. He has had possession of the
African Continent with all its variety of situation, climate and produce,
from time immemorial, and yet has no arts save the rudest, no literature,
no science, no temples, no ships, no cities, no moral code; in most
instances no idea even of a Supreme Being; nothing in fine, that removes
him beyond the desires and necessities of animal existence.[13]”
Professor Page then quotes the English traveler, Sir Samuel Baker, and
says: “Notwithstanding all this and a thousand times more (he refers to
the Andamaner and the native of Australia) there are some who still
argue about the equality of the human race, and talk high sounding
generalizations regarding the unity and brotherhood of men. As well
might they contend for equality of brothers of the same family, or equal
capacity among the men and families of a nation. As in the physical
world there are suns, systems, and satellites, so in the vital and
intellectual, there are higher and lower, races born to command and lead,
and others as certainly destined to obey and follow.
“It is not because one race has risen under favorable circumstances, and
another retrograded or remained stationary under conditions of an adverse
nature, but because of aboriginal differences and capabilities, which no
circumstances can efface nor appliances counteract.
“Brotherhood there may be and ought to be, as far as the inherent
instincts of race toward race will permit; and these instincts are not
to be disregarded with impunity; but as to unity, if by unity is meant
oneness of power and tendency, it is an assertion that all history and
present experience must deny. It is a mere phrase that may please the
unthinking ear, but it is not a fact that can satisfy the reason.[14]”
Captain Richard Burton, geographer, explorer, ethnical psychologist, a
shrewd and sagacious observer, says: “The study of psychology in Eastern
Africa is the study of man’s rudimental mind; when subject to the agency
of material nature, he neither progresses nor retrogrades.
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