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'I"o a rortain cxU-iii, aparl fi-oiii, and (.■etlaiiiK in aiMilion t<>. 

 our odirr racial problems wc have (o face this one of Black an*! 

 White, ^^■'hal our aim should he max l)e stated in terms I have 

 used in other writings. 



T have put it as a statement: 



To so act in our relations with the natives, and so ,!j^nide 

 them that they may l)a\-e all reasonable o])portunity for develop- 

 ino^ their race life alon<;- the best lines, takino^ account of their 

 ])hysicnl. mental, and moral imjirovement ; not necessarily fol- 

 lowiui^- the line of evolution of the white man, but the one their 

 race genius suggests. And that we. while so acting, shall also 

 have an opportunity of development, and be not subject as a 

 race to deteriorating tendencies which may be present in our race 

 environment. 



I also ])ut it as a c|uestion : 



Is it possible for a white race Avhose race aspiration is the 

 utmost econonn'c development of the country in which they live, 

 and every eflfective member of which is filled with a desire to 

 acquire and advance, to live with a black one, to whom the 

 aspirations and efforts of the white do not appeal, and yet so 

 adjust the life of each that both shall be content with the posi- 

 tion, and the black have all reasonable opportimities for such 

 development as is ]K)ssible to him ? 



Further thought and experience have not enabled me to put 

 the problem more clearly. 



I do not propose to attempt to i)lace before you at this time 

 any suggestions for a " solution " of the com])licated and chang- 

 ing social ])henomena of which I have given an outline. Prob- 

 ably there is no " solution " as the term is ordinarily used, and I 

 must be careful not to cross the border line into politics. I am 

 speaking to the members of an Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, whose object is the increase of natural knowledge. 

 whose field of investigation is that of all natural phenomena, and 

 whose methods are scientific. And by scientific, I understand 

 that on any given subject, including the grouping of humanity in 

 societies, they first carefully collect all the data bearing upon it, 

 and then endeavour to find the laws governing the phenomena 

 they are studying. 



By the increase of knowledge and by its application to the 

 needs of humanity it is hoped to increase the welfare of mankind. 



This brings our subject well within the purview of this 

 Association ; it is a question which calls for scientific treatment ; 

 for investigation, for careful generalisation, for application to 

 welfare of mankind. 



What are we who from our environment have such a 

 deep interest in this problem, and who from an intellecttial stand- 

 point should find a fascination in it, doing to study it in a scienti- 

 fic spirit? T am afraid it must be said that apparently we do 

 not realise its importance. 



For we want as a preliminary and basis not general views on 



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