. Crisis. of the sane mind and the large heart and thehonorable conscience and the resolute or later that man must find everydoor opened to him; he must be laureled andcrowned without regard to the accident ofhis beginnings or of his complexion. Prof. Charles Zueblin, lecturing in Boston,declares: It is all very well to glory in the thoughtthat we are a superior race. History isstrewn with the relics of superior Romans became so enervated by slave-holding^ taxes, conquests and luxuries thatwhen they met the unspoiled hordes of theNorth they fell prone before them. We need
. Crisis. of the sane mind and the large heart and thehonorable conscience and the resolute or later that man must find everydoor opened to him; he must be laureled andcrowned without regard to the accident ofhis beginnings or of his complexion. Prof. Charles Zueblin, lecturing in Boston,declares: It is all very well to glory in the thoughtthat we are a superior race. History isstrewn with the relics of superior Romans became so enervated by slave-holding^ taxes, conquests and luxuries thatwhen they met the unspoiled hordes of theNorth they fell prone before them. We need to cultivate nationalism in thiscountry and to avoid provincialism andracial antipathy. Provincialism is the re-sult of immobility, not of nativity. Thereturned New Englander is as virile andvaluable as the immigrant, but decadencethreatens the stationary native. There is noprospect that all the racial elements in theUnited States will be fused, but if we cannothave race unity we can have EDITORIAL
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