Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xvii. A new demand for an "age of reason." "Come, now, and let us reason together," was a divine injunction put into the lips of an ancient prophet to be voiced to a people who, swayed and controlled by the agitation Of the times, had drifted far from duty and obligation. The preceding chapters have been prepared with a view of concentrating public attention on a stupendous question which towers in our midst, and in which inheres problems which must sooner or later be grappled with. Every one capable of even ordinary reflection is forced to a recognition of this as a mighty fact. Men of both races, white and black, see in the drift of present events and in the meanings which they bear on their surface, an inevitable increase of difficulty unless some policy can be devised for its solution. While this is true, there are certain plain principles which must inevitably push their way through the years of the future, and bear along with them certain results for good or evil, according to the direction which may now be given them. By no possible means can these principles be stemmed. The purpose should now be so to control and direct them that they may result in good and not in evil. The pliability of our institutions and the nature of our laws forbid the interposition of any policy other than that based on truth and justice in seeking to solve the present difficulty. The sooner this fact is recognized and acted on the better it will be for all concerned. There are hidden germs in the difficulty which have not yet come to life, and which when they shall do so, will mean immensely more than is now apparent in the augmentation of the race problem. Drastic laws may prove a temporary makeshift in the present state of partially raw condit
