. Roundup. Seventh Year JANUARY, 1914 Number One Just Folks. ANS inhumanity to manmakes countless millionsmourn. And yet, inspite of the good oldPresbyterian doctrine oftotal depravity, man isnot a monster. True, heis selfish, but most of his acts ofcruelty are the result not of hisrapacity but are children of two mostindesirable parents, Fear and Ignor-ance. Notwithstanding Thermopyleaand Bunker Hill, man is a timid ani-mal. The unknown and its inhabi-tants fills him with fear. When,moreover, he learns that the strang-er is in certain respects unlike him-self, his vanity sends up reinforce-me
. Roundup. Seventh Year JANUARY, 1914 Number One Just Folks. ANS inhumanity to manmakes countless millionsmourn. And yet, inspite of the good oldPresbyterian doctrine oftotal depravity, man isnot a monster. True, heis selfish, but most of his acts ofcruelty are the result not of hisrapacity but are children of two mostindesirable parents, Fear and Ignor-ance. Notwithstanding Thermopyleaand Bunker Hill, man is a timid ani-mal. The unknown and its inhabi-tants fills him with fear. When,moreover, he learns that the strang-er is in certain respects unlike him-self, his vanity sends up reinforce-ments to aid his fear. If the man isunlike himself, he must of necessitybe inferior and is to be despised aswell as distrusted. The stranger hasbecome the enemy. This explains theattitude of the street urchin towardlittle Lord Fauntleroy, of the cow-boy toward the tenderfoot, of the Chi-nese boxer toward the foreign devil. Among the agents which are atwork trying to undermine this wallof prejudice between race and race; between class and class, none is moree
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