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discrimination, with respect to all spheres of activity, tends to dis- 

 appear. 



In view of the political assimilation involved in the modern plan 

 for colonial administration, the question naturally arises as to the 

 bearing of this on social assimilation. For Anglo-Saxons this ques- 

 tion is of special interest. It is interesting to know whether their 

 rigid race-respect, w r hich has hitherto held them aloof from strange 

 peoples, is to be overthrown in the pursuit of a political ideal. The 

 Anglo-Saxon's instinct has kept his stock free from the contamina- 

 tion of foreign blood, and herein is one of the sources of his strength. 

 By this he has been able to keep the gains of his progress. The 

 Spaniards, on the other hand, in their colonization, mingled their 

 blood with the blood of the less developed races, and their descend- 

 ants counted, in many instances, less for the continuance of Spanish 

 strength than for the upbuilding of Indian nations. But as the 

 Anglo-Saxon has moved upon foreign territory and established 

 himself among rude peoples, his increase has always counted for 

 civilization. In his early colonial administration of branches of 

 alien races he assumed not only the political but also the social 

 inferiority of the aliens. Under the newer plan of colonial adminis- 

 tration the two elements of the population cooperate in conducting 

 the government, and thus the Anglo-Saxons are brought into a rela- 

 tion to the dependent people different from that which they held 

 in the early history of their colonization. 



The experience of the Anglo-Saxon and kindred peoples does not 

 furnish adequate data for a satisfactory solution of the problem 

 here suggested. Questions concerning the social relations that will 

 ultimately exist between members of dominant Western nations 

 and the inhabitants of alien dependencies are conspicuous among the 

 unsettled questions of colonial policy. It is evident that there are 

 to continue to be instances of members of widely different races living 

 in the same community and participating in a common government. 

 The negroes of the South appear destined to abide in this country 

 yet many generations, and also to have some part in the govern- 

 ment. The English are not likely soon to withdraw from India; 

 and if the Dutch cease to rule in the East Indies, it is quite probable 

 that a nation of the white race will succeed them. The living 

 together of parts of different races is evidently one of the facts that 

 must be accepted for the future, and the coming generations will 

 be under the necessity of elaborating some basis of coexistence and 

 common participation in public affairs. The only alternative is the 

 relegation of one or the other of the races to a position of social and 

 political subjection, and this is less probable than some adjustment 

 of the different elements to one another and the management of 

 their common interests in common. 



