but conviction which is based on ignorance or incomplete knowledge is dangerous. This study summarizes a vast amount of knowledge dealing with race relations. Its comprehensive and well ordered array of facts and opinions should give the "man on the street," as well as the student of race relations, a guide for conduct and study. It brings home the sense of responsibility and calls for greater coöperation and broader tolerance. Dr. Weatherford, in addition to describing Negro achievement whenever and wherever right conditions prevail, shows the relation of environment to progress or lack of progress, the relation of illiteracy and poverty to crime, and the relation of religion and education to unselfish and intelligent service. His study is free from shibboleths or other forms of cant. It presents the story of the gradual emergence of a race from darkness toward light by way of the hard and profitable discipline of adversity. The story, while realistic in its pictures of man's inhumanity to man, is still hopeful and constructive. The open-minded reader will close the volume with the high thought, what a noble achievement it would be for America to show the world that there can be coöperation with differences, that there can be a fair application of the Golden Rule in contacts and relations among the races of mankind. Charlottesville, Va. JAMES H. DILLARD. |