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as not to include many cases of death and inheritance, even 

 with an abundance of property being developed by the more 

 industrious and able. A good instance is furnished by a rich 

 gold mining ca p. 



So long as a nation consists of two classes, there is bound to 

 be some injustice. The two groups are too much intermingled, 

 and their interests interact too much, to make a special govern- 

 ment and a special set of laws possible. Unless the species differ 

 in some marked characteristic, such as colour, a system of re- 

 presentative proportional government cannot succeed, because 

 the exact proportions in which the species exist cannot be 

 determined. 



The negro-problem in the United States is a good example 

 of the difficulties which arise, when two species coexist, which 

 are easily seen to be different. The abolishment of slavery in a 

 certain sense created the difficulty. So long as the blacks were 

 slaves, they were not citizens. When slavery was done away 

 with, the slaves should have been done away with, we must 

 see now that the best thing that could have been done to end 

 the slavery, would have been to send the blacks where they 

 came from. They are undesirable citizens in that they cannot 

 mix. The whites do not want them to mix. They are a stum- 

 bling-block in the path of real democracy, for it goes very much 

 against the grain to let them participate in government, not so 

 much because the whites feel superior to the blacks, but be- 

 cause they feel they are different. The blacks in Tahiti have the 

 same objection to letting the whites participate in government, 

 not because they feel better than the whites, but because they 

 feel that they are not of their species. And it is galling to an 

 otherwise remarkably homogeneous people, to profess de- 

 mocracy and the brotherhood of men, and to stand for the 

 choice of being consistent and admitting the blacks to a real 

 equality, against every feeling of inequality, or of being incon- 

 sistent and of discriminating against them. There may not now 

 be an efficient remedy for the situation, but the real nature of 

 the negro-problem should be understood, and in this way the 



