... that if the results of our education in the widest sense, in the home, in the shop, in the nation, and in the world at large, had really been hereditary, even in the slightest degree, then indeed ... ideas, and which, being rooted in instinctive fear of innovation, has power over us all. Progress, then, has everywhere been the result, in the beginning, of individual initiative in men who were ... everyone, but in the opinion of competent observers there is nothing in the anatomy of the black man to make him a lower beast than the man with the white skin. It is now seen that there is no...