Unfettered: A NovelGriggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
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Unfettered: A Novel
Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
African Americans -- Fiction; United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
4. Salaries for teaching must be raised that a high
order of talent may be the more easily enlisted.
5. Books must be supplied to the children too poor to
buy.
6. Means must be instituted to prevent the too common
habit of withdrawing the Negro child from school at so
early an age to help support the family. These and such
other measures as close scrutiny may from time to time
suggest must be employed to make the public school
system among the Negroes what it ought to be.
IN THE UPPER REALMS.
It is not enough to provide elementary training for our people. The great
minds of earth choose the devious pathways to be threaded by the wavering
feet of humanity. They pass upon what is true and what is false, what is
right and what is wrong, what is expedient and what is inexpedient.
Tremendous is the influence that has been exerted on human history by the
teachings of the great.
Through the training of the intellect the Negroes must develop men capable
of interpreting and influencing world movements, men able to adjust the
race to any new conditions that may arise. We need men to do for the Negro
race what Prof. Henry Drummond sought to do for the Christian religion. In
the upper chamber of the house of human knowledge, the congress of
scientists presided over by Charles Darwin, and representing the culture of
the ages, met to promulgate a new religion; a religion that would establish
Nature as our ethical teacher, pointing with the finger of evolution, the
way for man to go. By dint of patient, faithful labor and notable
achievements in the realm of science, Prof. Drummond secured admittance
into this upper chamber and took his seat at the council table. Soon the
world heard his voice proclaiming in the tone of one speaking with
authority that the new revelations of science contained no poison for
Christianity; that the new teacher, Nature, was the friend, not the enemy,
of the old teacher, the Bible. He declared that Evolution and Christianity
have "the same author, the same end and the same spirit."
Thus Drummond was on hand to seek to stay the Darwinian hand, if, after
shattering other conceptions, it had attempted to demolish the one worship
that modern civilization has thus far failed to destroy.
To prepare Negroes for taking care of our interests in the realms of
highest thought, our racial organization must found universities, liberally
endow scholarships, provide equipments for original investigations and so
foster the cause of higher education that no race can boast of superior
intellectual attainments.
"OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END."
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