The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-25


your brain and reading talk like thaty
when am with you and hear your
voice have heroic impulses. You are
the only human being with whom |
would take the time to discuss this
question. But the current is too strong.
The other way is easier. and it serves
my ends better. Besides. | am not
sure it isn't better from every point
of view. We've got the negro here.
and must educate him.
Hush. Tell that to somebody that
hates you. not to me- she cried.
Don't you think we must educate
them2''
ssNo; / think it's a crime"
"Would you leave them in ignorance,
a. threat to society"
Eyes. until they can be moved.
When l see these young negro men
and women coming out Of their schools
and colleges, well dressed. with their
shallow veneer of an imitation culture,
l feel like crying over the farce"
Surely, Mrs. Durham, you believe
| they are better fitted for life?"
"They are not. They are lifted out
/ Of their only possible sphere of their
mental service, and denied any career.
It is simply inhuman. They are led
| to certain slaughter of soul and body
at last. 1t is horrible tragedy"
| Allan looked at her. smiled. and re-
| piled: II knew you were bitter and
brilliant woman. but didn't think you
would go to such lengths even with
your pet aversions."
| Its not an aversion, or a prejudice,
| sir. It's a simple fact of history. Edu-
cation increases the power of the hui
man brain to think and the heart to
suffer- Sooner or later these educated
negroes feel the clutch of the iron hand
of the white mans unwritten laws on
their threats. They have their choice
between suicides grave or prison
cell. And the numbers who dare the
grave and the prison cell daily in
crease. The south is kinder to the ne
gro when he is kept in his place"
"You are a quarter of a century be-
hind the times"
Am so old?' she laughed.
1.-THE sentiment. not the woman. You
are the most beautiful woman ever
saw"
81 like my boys to feel that way
about me-"
"You don't class me quite with the
rest. do your
She blushed the slightest bit. "No;
I've always taken q peculiar interest
in you. have quarreled with every
body who has hated and spoken evil
of you. l have always believed you
were capable of a high and noble life
of great achievement"
"And your faith in me has been my
highest incentive to give the lie to my
enemies and succeed. And will.
will be master of this state within two
years. And want you to remember
that l lay it all at your feet. The
world need not know it-yeu know 1t. -
He spoke with intense earnesmess.
"But / don't want you to achieve
success at the price Of negro equality
1 feel a sense of unspeakable degrade
ton for you when l hear your name
Kissed Come. Allan. give up negro
politics and devote yourself to an hon
OraDle career In law.
He shook his head with calm per
sistence.
"No; it's my calling"
She looked at Mcleod a moment
with a curiously cold expression. 81
want to thank you for the book yor
} sent me recently"
"You liked it?' he cried. with gilt
tering eyes.
81 devoured every word of it with {
greed you cannot understand. A grea
man wrote it.
"Then we can understand each othel
better from today" he interrupted
smilingly.
, Eyes. far better. You gave me this
book hoping that it might influence my
character by destroying my ideal Of
love. didn't you-now frankly"
: "Honestly. did hope it would eman
cipate you from superstitions.
:. ''It has she declared, but with {
7 curious curve Of her lip that chilled
him.
what are you driving at?' he asked
suspiciously.
Ills DOCK Has given Lue Lue Nc.
that unlocked for me. for the first time
: the riddle of my physical being. 4
} has shown me the physical basis O
love. just as knew before there wa
, a physical basis of the soul.'
. what did you understand it t.
teach?" he asked.
"Simply that love is based in its ma
t terial life on the lobe of the brail
: which develops at the base of child
t head near the age Of thirteen. Tha
| this lobe of the brain is the sex center
and love is impossible. until it develops
2 That this center of new powers at tn
i. base of the skull is a physical magnet
s That when a man and woman approach
e each other. who are by nature mates
: these magnetic centers are disturbe'
? by action and reaction, and that thi
disturbance develops the second ele