A WORLD-WIDE COLOR LINE 477 



come stronger in offensive ability and attempt to win back piecemeal 

 what they have lost in the past while still " undrilled." " That they 

 must become at least masters of their own houses can not any longer be 

 doubted." 6 



Against this alarmist view two objections may properly be offered 

 on the score of population increase. In the first place, as the colored 

 races approach the standard of the white civilization, the same influ- 

 ences which have reduced white fecundity will increasingly operate 

 among them. As has already been shown, improved modes of living 

 are already making possible a greater population economy among the 

 colored, and the acquisition of still higher standards will lower the 

 birth-rate to a point consistent with these better standards of living. 

 Secondly, it is not at all true that the expansion of the white race has 

 now reached its final geographical limits. Not to assume that certain 

 elevated districts within the tropics may in time be open to white 

 colonization, there are still vast areas in Siberia, South America, South 

 Africa and Australasia so sparsely settled as to be practically unin- 

 habited. It is therefore nearer the truth to say that the habitat of the 

 colored races is now fixed beyond the possibility of notable change ex- 

 cept by sporadic migrations, while the greater regions at present 

 sparsely peopled are within the white sphere of influence. 7 



Colored 



Per Square Mile. 



China 266 



Japan 320 



British India 211 



Java 600 



"White 



Per Square Mile. 



United States 25.6 



Canada 1.48 



Argentina 5.4 



Siberia 1.4 



Australia 1.5 



Cape Colony 8.7 



Transvaal 10.0 



That there already exists, since the rise of Japan, a well-marked 

 sense of race solidarity among the yellow peoples of eastern Asia need 



"Estimating the total population of the world at 1,705,000,000, Weale 

 makes the division by color as follows: 



Whites 566,000,000 



Mixed whites 40,000,000 



Absolute yellow, brown and black 1,099,000,000 



Of the whites 453,500,000 are assigned to Europe, and of the colored 

 947,000,000 belong to Asia and 140,000,000 to Africa (p. 111). 



7 The density of population in certain of the greater habitable areas peopled 

 by the whites and by the colored outside of Europe shows some significant 

 contrasts : 



