bountiful European immigration will preserve the civilization. Immigration without the color line will lengthen Caucasian supremacy, but will not perpetuate the civilization.1 1Read The History of South Africa, by George M. Theal (4 volumes); Britain Across the Seas, by Sir H. H. Johnston; South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union, by T. R. Cana; Impressions of South Africa, by James Bryce; The Settlement After the War, by M. J. Farrelly; Matabeleland, by Capt. Charles L. Norris Newman; What I Think of South Africa, by Stewart Chamberlain. The historical incidents referred to in this volume may be verified by reference to these writers. British writers themselves are foremost in showing British mistakes in dealing with colored races, and it has seemed preferable to utilize their criticisms rather than rely wholly upon the author's impressions during a prolonged local study of various British colonies. CHAPTER X THE CIVILIZATION THAT HAS SURVIVED CONTACT WITH COLORED RACES: THE UNITED STATES It has been made clear that the intensity of civilization in Latin America is in inverse ratio to the numerical proportion of the negro in the populations of the various cultural centers. That where the whites are in greater preponderance the culture is more advanced. The negro's depressing influence upon civilization is observable, not in Latin America alone, but in the portions of the United States where his numbers are great; in South Africa, Southern Europe, or wherever else the Caucasian and the negro are in contact. Intensity of civilization in its material phase is almost identical with intensity of industrialism, and the black has not proved himself the industrial equal of the white man. In the North of the United States, the negro's cultural inferiority has resulted in his practical elimination from the industries, and apparently he is to suffer the same fate in the South. The negro is generally absent from the Southern textile factories. The whites of the South produce a good deal more than half of the cotton. As the |