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Page vii
... present time , that one of the most fruitful sources of international wars are racial prejudice and national egotism . This conviction is the nerve of much present day pacifism . It has been the inspiration of such unofficial diplomacy ...
... present time , that one of the most fruitful sources of international wars are racial prejudice and national egotism . This conviction is the nerve of much present day pacifism . It has been the inspiration of such unofficial diplomacy ...
Page ix
... present time this mobility has already reached a point at which it is often easier and cheaper to trans- port the world's population to the sources of raw mate- rials than to carry the world's manufactures to the established seats of ...
... present time this mobility has already reached a point at which it is often easier and cheaper to trans- port the world's population to the sources of raw mate- rials than to carry the world's manufactures to the established seats of ...
Page x
... present volume touches but does not deal with the general situation which I have briefly sketched . It is , as its title suggests , a study in " racial contacts , " and is an attempt to distinguish and trace to their sources X Introduction.
... present volume touches but does not deal with the general situation which I have briefly sketched . It is , as its title suggests , a study in " racial contacts , " and is an attempt to distinguish and trace to their sources X Introduction.
Page xii
... present in every situation where the fundamental interests of races and peoples are not yet regulated by some law , custom , or any other modus vivendi which commands the assent and the mutual support of both parties . We hate people ...
... present in every situation where the fundamental interests of races and peoples are not yet regulated by some law , custom , or any other modus vivendi which commands the assent and the mutual support of both parties . We hate people ...
Page xiv
... present in sufficient numbers to actually disturb the economic status of the white popu- actually disturb lation that prejudice has manifested itself to such a degree as to demand serious consideration . It is an interesting fact , also ...
... present in sufficient numbers to actually disturb the economic status of the white popu- actually disturb lation that prejudice has manifested itself to such a degree as to demand serious consideration . It is an interesting fact , also ...
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Page 49 - In proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States...
Page 186 - That the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the immigration laws to the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 3 per centum of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1910.
Page 47 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 17 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 18 - The sum of his instructions was to begin with preaching, and, if that failed, to proceed to the sharp determination of the sword.
Page 94 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 58 - If one race assumes the right to appropriate all the wealth, why should not all the other races feel ill used and protest? If the yellow races are oppressed by the white races, and have to revolt to avoid congestion and maintain existence, whose fault is it but that of the aggressors ? .... If the white races truly love peace, and wish to deserve the name of Christian nations, they will practice what they preach and will soon restore to us the rights so long withheld Any suggestion that we must be...
Page 95 - The ideas of this people are not our ideas; their sentiments are not our sentiments; their ethical life represents for us regions of thought and emotion yet unexplored, or perhaps long forgotten.
Page 195 - We have no choice, we people of the United States, as to whether or not we shall play a great part in the world. That has been determined for us by fate, by the march of events. We have to play that part. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill.
Page 178 - The Japanese, like the Negro, is condemned to remain among us an abstraction, a symbol, and a symbol not merely of his own race, but of the Orient and of that vague, illdefined menace we sometimes refer to as the "yellow peril.