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What I have said about bad stock seems to me to hold for the lower races of man. How many centuries, how many thousands of years, have the Kaffir [a tribe in southern Africa] or the negro held large districts in Africa undisturbed by the white man? Yet their intertribal struggles have not yet produced a civilization in the least comparable with the Aryan [western European]. Educate and nurture them as you will, I do not believe that you will succeed in modifying the stock. History shows me one way, and one way only, in which a high state of civilization has been produced, namely, the struggle of race with race, and the survival of the physically and mentally fitter race… .
Contents
- Industrialism and Its After-effects
- Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations Year: 1776
- Leeds Woolen Workers Petition Year: 1786
- Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of Manufactures Year: 1835
- People’s Charter Year: 1838
- Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor Year: 1839
- Horace Mann: “The Condition of the Children of Laborers on Public Works” Year: 1840
- Edwin Chadwick: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population Year: 1842
- Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners Year: 1842
- Treaty of Nanjing Year: 1842
- Rules of a Berlin Factory Year: 1844
- Harriet Farley (Using the Pseudonym “Susan”): Letters from the Lowell Mill Year: 1844
- Josephine L. Baker: “A Second Peep at Factory Life” Year: 1845
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto Year: 1848
- Michael Faraday: Letter to the Editor about the River Thames Year: 1856
- William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects Year: 1857
- Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen Year: 1860
- Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom Year: 1861
- Pacific Railway Act Date: 1862
- Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man Year: 1871
- Louis Pasteur: “The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery” Year: 1878
- Paul Lafargue: “The Socialist Ideal” Year: 1883
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives Year: 1890
- Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” Date: 1892
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism 1899
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science Date: 1901
- Progressive Party Platform Date: 1912
- Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan” Date: 1933