Progress and Achievements of the Colored People: Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans—the Most Marvelous in the History of Nations—Their Past Accomplishments, Together With Their Present-day Opportunities and a Glimpse Into the Future for Further Developments—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Progress and Achievements of the Colored People: Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans—the Most Marvelous in the History of Nations—Their Past Accomplishments, Together With Their Present-day Opportunities and a Glimpse Into the Future for Further Developments—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success
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These people present no example worth being followed, but as to the
descendants of the real savage American Indian, the Sioux, Algonquins,
and other large and savage warrior tribes encountered by the American
pioneer and frontiersmen, they show the power of civilization and their
adaptability to changed environment.
Among them were many noble men, men of high aspirations and aims, who as
soon as they understood civilization, broke away from the trammels of
savagery and became civilized. That is, they adopted the manners and
customs of the civilized races, and became unified with them.
RESULTS OF EDUCATION
Among them, education has produced a large number of men of high grade,
and influence. Most of them have turned to agriculture, but being a race
that is still in embryo, so to speak, that is one of the present era,
the time has not yet arrived when it can be predicted of them that they
are equal to coming up to the highest rank in civilized life.
They are an open, living illustration of the power of education and
modern civilization. The lesson to be learned from them is, that what a
race so sunk in savagery and barbarism can do, is much more within the
reach of the Colored Americans who have a great and noble ancestry back
to which they may look with admiration and feel an incentive to continue
to advance—it is in them.
THE JAPANESE AS AN ILLUSTRATION
We come to the Japanese as an illustration of unification of the races,
because they have put themselves before the world as entitled to
consideration as much as any other race. Inasmuch as they are rapidly
becoming a world power, and have the warships and guns to back up their
pretensions, the nations of the earth feel justified in considering
their claims.
Whence they come nobody knows, not even their own learned men. They
originated somewhere in the past, but not ancient past, or they would
have been heard of, but may be a cross among the Turanian tribes. They
are small men and dark, which lends truth to this theory.
With their origin we have nothing to do, because their rise and progress
is something men now living have witnessed and stand amazed at its
suddenness and at the height to which these small men have attained.
They are a brilliant example of what education and civilization backed
by intense persistence and energy will accomplish in taking advantage of
opportunity.