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formation into Americans. Two things are 

 necessary for this: the presence of a growth- 

 creating surplus and the existence of com- 

 mon emotions, so that men.'s qualities may be 

 uniformly pruned, and may also grow anew 

 in the same directions. The emotions of a 

 race are not a natural inheritance due to 

 growth, but are a part of the social environ- 

 ment of its members, and act alike on all 

 individuals under the stress of the emotions. 

 Regeneration results wherever the surplus per- 

 mits growth and places the person in proper 

 contact with his environment. Society, there- 

 fore, may expect these emotional changes to 

 act upon every class which has gained the 

 surplus on which growth and regeneration 

 depend. It must guard, not these natural 

 results of every forward movement, but the 

 acquired characters which become weaker with 

 progress, and require an increasing surplus in 

 order to preserve the natural equality of classes 

 and of related parts. 



The development of a lower race let us 

 say the negroes in America does not necessi- 

 tate remaking the negro by an artificial process. 



