 | David Starr Jordan - Democracy - 1899 - 326 pages
...was lost when we made the leaders of the Filipinos our enemies. "If ever," says Dr. William James, "there was a situation to be handled psychologically,...and they will remain too far away to the end of the chapter. If the first step is such a criminal blunder, what shall we expect of the last? " In grim... | |
 | Cornel West - Philosophy - 1989 - 292 pages
...... we have treated [them] as if they were a painted picture, an amount of mere matter in our ways. They are too remote from us ever to be realized as they exist in their inwardness.58 We are to be missionaries of civilization, and to bear the white man's burden, painful... | |
 | Thomas Peyser - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 212 pages
...William James meant when he said, "We have treated [the Filipinos] as if they were a painted picture They are too remote from us ever to be realized as they exist in their inwardness."37 It is remarkable that this way of figuring the United States' relations to the subject... | |
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Filipinos as if they were a painted picture, an amount of mere matter in our way. They are too remote from us ever to be realized as they exist in their inwardness. 