 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea, — that conserves it; ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.1...  Works - Page 172by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1867 - 494 pages
...dawn — but not till then ! CHAPTER V. REMOVALS BANISHMENTS EXPULSIONS EXTERMINATIONS. If the black man is feeble, and not important to the existing races,...on a parity with the best race, the black man must * * * bo exterminated. — KALPH WALDO EMERSON. It is a question of races, involving consequences which... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 500 pages
...dawn — but not till then ! CHAPTER V. REMOVALS BANISHMENTS EXPULSIONS EXTERMINATIONS. If the black man is feeble, and not Important to the existing races, not on a parity with the beat race, the black man mast * * * be exterminated.— RALPH WALDO EJOXSON. Ufa a question of races,... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...race a new principle appears, — an idea, — that conserves it ; ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble, and not important to the existing races,...and be exterminated. But if the black man carries tin his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization, for the sake of that element... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 438 pages
...race, a new principle appears, an idea, — that conserves it ; ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races,...and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in bis bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization ; for the sake of that element,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 676 pages
...a race a new principle appears, an idea, — that conserves it; ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races,...with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.1 But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 704 pages
...ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble and not important to i44 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.1 But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1906 - 726 pages
...a race a new principle appears, an idea, — that conserves it; ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races,...with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.1 But if the black man carries -in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Social problems - 1920 - 280 pages
...the new generation will feel its obligations to the country more keenly. In the words of Emerson : If the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable...coming civilization, for the sake of that element no wealth, nor power, nor circumstance can hurt him; he will survive and play his part. If you have man,... | |
 | Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Literary Collections - 1991 - 385 pages
...a race a new principle appears, an idea — that conserves it; ideas only save races. If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races,...coming civilization, for the sake of that element, he will survive and play his part. . . . This "idea," of course, could be communicated only in written... | |
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