The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1912-01-27

60. The infant In its cradle today II
typical of the child-man and shows I'M
mistakable fear upon the intrusion Of
strange faces into the nursery and In
it's feeble way attempts to avoid them.
Property. welfare and life itself have
been conserved simply by the "ofish"
instinct. 1t has also had temporarily
wonderful use. pertaining to certain
values acquired in the condition Of
racial integrity. which we will con-
slider presently. Therefore we do not
think of shyness in general as being
q bad or mean quality.
However. it is an involuntary ac-
acknowledgement that intelligence is lack
ing requisite to right conduct of life.
1t bars the reciprocal relations neces-
sary to growth Of civilization. So
primitive shyness or avoidance cannot
always remain commendable With
general development it either takes an
advanced form-as, for instance. just
circumspection-or, with changing re-
lations, 1t readily becomes pernicious.
NAL conditions are exaggerated or
strained they must become abnormal.
In similar way a racial distrust,
once temporarily useful, drifts into
unwarranted obstruction or ruinous
antipathy. The egOistic tendency, en-
couraged by sickly intelligence, invites
prejudice to come in and expel recip-
rocal justice. While this may be due
to mistake on the part Of some. it real
ly Is a phase of selfishness.
There Is, of course, monstrous self
ishness not identified with prejudice
and not involved with racial relations.
1t distresses humanity today in the
forms of official betrayal Of trust, child
labor schemes and monopolistic greed.
Like race maladjustment. such mani
festatiOns begin in unreasonable ex-
tension Of natural impulse and result
In degradation.
This particular perversion, we be-
lieve, as are those, is now in the climax
Of its ugliness. Such phenomena con-
stitute the moral interregnum which
now shamefully and fatally afflicts
this country. True civilization seeks
the balance between egoism and altru-
ism. In view Of certain facts, some of
which we briefly indicate, and Of sig
nificant typal manifestations universal
ly evident, intellectual confusion" ia
no longer pardonable.
The popular movement for education
In
doubtless because of increasing inter-
est in the philosophy Of evolution. In
its light, racial phenomena must be
observed
AS for general safety-waiving the
idea Of non-natural assistance and
dial action in Nature herself. An
instance of this truth Is the spontane-
Gus movement of racial conveyance,
which proceeds as surely and about as
quietly and safely as does the work.
ing Of the law Of gravitation. The
result is publicly commented upon by
some who do not understand it. A
magazine writer has noted the increas-
ing number Of people of mixed type,
declaring that 1t Is not much matter If
scholarship can offer no explanation of
this, as it will presently explain itself!
Long ago the writer entered this
field. and in 1898 a monograph APP
peared. "Nyetta Segal" Dillingham;.
At least a few called 1t radical and
adequate as pioneer sketch. These
claimed for it priority as to identified
ton of the phenomenon with evolu-
tional laws, for there was dearth Of
the pertinent in textbook and CYCLIC
pedia.