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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
- New Imperialism
- Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith Date: 1877
- Constitution of the Hawaiian Islands Date: 1887
- Bernhard von Bülow on Germany’s “Place in the Sun” Date: 1897
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: “Current Fallacies upon Naval Subjects” Date: 1898
- William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention Date: 1898
- William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation Date: 1898
- John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White Date: 1899
- William McKinley: Statement to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church Date: 1899
- Emilio Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States Date: 1899
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism Date: 1899
- Mary Kingsley: West African Studies Date: 1899
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Date: 1899
- Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden” Date: 1899
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science Date: 1901
- Mark Twain: “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” Date: 1901
- Boxer Protocol Year: 1901
- D’Arcy Concession Date: 1901
- Ernest Crosby: “The Real White Man's Burden” Date: 1902
- Panama Canal Treaty Date: 1903
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Date: 1904
- Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden Date: 1920
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa Year: 1920
- George Orwell: Burmese Days Date: 1934
- Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Date: 1945
- Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal Date: 1956
- John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis Date: 1956
- Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly Date: 1964