Serial policy failure

Since the abolition of slavery, this principle of colonial humanitarianism has been making an advance, but the imperial powers must now realize that Europeans (and American imperialists for that matter) are not the racial superiors of any other race, and unless this bugaboo of race superiority is renounced, there can be no sincere progress or inter-racial and international peace and good will.28 Dr. George Dorsey of the University of Chicago, recently criticized this idea of race superiority and inferiority, when in his famous treatise he said that too many abstract formulae about humanity and too little common sense for solving concrete social problems make human association and fellowship increasingly tense; "But," he states, "the 'racial purity' and 'racial inferiority' behind such books as McDougall's Is America Safe for Democracy? Chamberlain's Foundations of Nineteenth Century Civilization; Grant's The Passing of the Great Race; Wiggam's The New Decalogue of Science; Gould's America a Family Matter; and East's Mankind at the Crossroads, are pure bunk and simple. If the United States wish to restrict immigration to 'Nordics' or to this or that political group why not say so and be done with it? To bolster up racial prejudice or a Nordic or a Puritan complex by false and misleading inferences drawn from 'intelligence tests' or from pseudo-biology and ethnology is to throw away science and fall back on the mentality of primitive savagery. Evolution produced a human brain, our only remarkable inheritance. Nothing else counts. Body is simply brain's servant. Treat the body right, of course; no brain can function well without good service. But why worry more about the looks, color, and clothes of the servant than the service it performs? "2 Weyl holds that the social goal of democracy is advancement of the people through a democratization of advantages and opportunities of life.30 Even Edmund Burke, the fore-sighted statesman of England, warned the British regarding its policy under the complex of race superiority in the colonies thus: "Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and your privileges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation; the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution ....” Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the Empire."'" Thus the dual mandate principle entails more than trusteeship, it entails social progress and social progress entails a liberality of attitude and equal opportunities so that these adolescents will reap the benefit of a realistic and not a fictitious mandates principle. This is a challenge to international morality and particularly the League of Nations.