THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR
AGAINST
WHITE WORLD-SUPREMACY
THE
RISING TIDE OF COLOR
AGAINST WHITE WORLD-SUPREMACY
BY
LOTHROP STODDARD, A.M., Ph.D. (Harv.)
AUTHOR OF “THE STAKES OF THE WAR,”
“PRESENT-DAY EUROPE: ITS NATIONAL STATES OF MIND,”
“THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO,” ETC.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
MADISON GRANT
CHAIRMAN NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY; TRUSTEE AMERICAN
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; COUNCILLOR AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY;
AUTHOR OF “THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE”
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1921
Copyright, 1920, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
All rights reserved
Published April, 1920
Reprinted June, July, September, October, 1920;
February, 1921
PREFACE
More than a decade ago I became convinced that the key-note oftwentieth-century world-politics would be the relations between theprimary races of mankind. Momentous modifications of existingrace-relations were evidently impending, and nothing could be more vitalto the course of human evolution than the character of thesemodifications, since upon the quality of human life all else depends.
Accordingly, my attention was thenceforth largely directed to racialmatters. In the preface to an historical monograph (“The French Revolutionin San Domingo”) written shortly before the Great War, I stated: “Theworld-wide struggle between the primary races of mankind—the ‘conflict ofcolor,’ as it has been happily termed—bids fair to be the fundamentalproblem of the twentieth century, and great communities like the UnitedStates of America, the South African Confederation, and Australasia regardthe ‘color question’ as perhaps the gravest problem of the future.”
Those lines were penned in June, 1914. Before their publication the GreatWar had burst upon the world. At that time several reviewers commentedupon the above dictum and wondered whether, had I written two monthslater, I should have held a different opinion.
[Pg vi]As a matter of fact, I should have expressed myself even more strongly tothe same effect. To me the Great War was from the first the White CivilWar, which, whatever its outcome, must gravely complicate the course ofracial relations.
Before the war I had hoped that the readjustments rendered inevitable bythe renascence of the brown and yellow peoples of Asia would be a gradual,and in the main a pacific, process, kept within evolutionary bounds by thewhite world’s inherent strength and fundamental solidarity. The frightfulweakening of the white world during the war, however, opened uprevolutionary, even cataclysmic, possibilities.
In saying this I do not refer solely to military “perils.” The subjugationof white lands by colored armies may, of course, occur, especially if thewhite world continues to rend itself with internecine wars. However, suchcolored triumphs of arms are less to be dreaded than more enduringconquests like migrations which would swamp whole populations and turncountries now white into colored man’s lands irret