There is such a thing as race egotism as well as creature egotism,
and a very good thing it is. In the first place, the Western world
will not permit the rise of the yellow peril. It is firmly convinced
that it will not permit the yellow and the brown to wax strong and
menace its peace and comfort. It advances this idea with
persistency, and delivers itself of long arguments showing how and
why this menace will not be permitted to arise. Today, far more
voices are engaged in denying the yellow peril than in prophesying
it. The Western world is warned, if not armed, against the
possibility of it.
In the second place, there is a weakness inherent in the brown man
which will bring his adventure to naught. From the West he has
borrowed all our material achievement and passed our ethical
achievement by. Our engines of production and destruction he has
made his. What was once solely ours he now duplicates, rivalling our
merchants in the commerce of the East, thrashing the Russian on sea
and land.
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