AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

The principle that the people of no nation may go into the country of another people, however remote or primitive, and dispossess them of their land has now been accepted by all western civilized nations. The history of the past ten years offers tangible evidence of such an acceptance: Britain has philosophically, if not cheerfully, retreated from India; the United States has handed over the Phillipines; there has been no tendency to displace or exploit the people of Japan; but it has only been spasmodically, and in very few minds, that the question has ever been raised as to whether or not the white races were right or wrong in taking America away from the original inhabitants and practically exterminating the race, while the question of what might still be done to preserve the remnants of that race, or the remaining vestiges of its culture, has scarcely advanced beyond the stage of academic discussion or antiquarian interest; for, since the very first moment the white man came into contact with him, the unfortunate Indian has been the victim of emotional reaction to him.[...]