YOUNG NEGRO CHILDREN'S PRECOCITY 101 



weather, you probably would not raise 

 twenty of them. 



The negro child appears very precocious 

 during early life. I believe the natural in- 

 stincts of the negro babe are more acute 

 than those of the white child. His musical 

 talent is pronounced in early childhood, but, 

 when he reaches a certain stage, we find an 

 inpenetrable wall, beyond which there can 

 be no future accomplishment. The record 

 in the first and second grades of school at 

 Lexington, Kentucky, for negroes, shows 

 that the grades are made with little dififi- 

 culty. The third and fourth grades tell an- 

 other story. Eeports show a large per cent, 

 who cannot make, in one year, the third 

 grade, or any higher grades. The mind of 

 the negro gets its maturity at the end of the 

 second or third or fourth grade, as the case 

 may be. No system of teaching can correct 

 it. It is due to the inherent fiber of the 

 brain that only can be changed by a process 

 of evolution which may take some thou- 

 sands of years to accomplish. 



There is in Africa, today, a race of black 

 Jews, claiming to be descendants of King 



