Lendle

The social problems before the American people for solution, there is none perhaps of more fundamental importance than that created by the presence of some ten million persons of a race and color different from that of the major part of the country's population. The future of the nation is in a degree conditioned by the treatment which this race problem receives. Is the amalgamation of the races in contact to be regarded as an ideal? If so, there
remains the problem of working out a technique by means of which some degree of harmony and good will can be established between the racial groups during the period that mongrelization is in progress. Or would the infusion of ten percent of Negro blood .so materially lower the ideals and the intellectual and cultural capacity of the population as to cause the country to drop out of the group of culture nations? If so, there is the problem of checking the fusion already in progress, as well as the problem of establishing some sort of harmonious working relations between the races while they separately work out their racial destiny. In regard to the fundamental question there is as yet no consensus of scholarly opinion; the problem has scarcely been
attacked in a scholarly way. The more immediately practical problem has as yet received little intellectual consideration : for the most part it still arouses emotion rather than thought.