VII, pp. 450-451, Oct., 1916.

[128] Mecklin, John M., _Democracy and Race Friction, a Study in Social
Ethics_, New York, 1914. p. 147.

[129] It would be more accurate to say the Nordic race. Other white
races have not uniformly shown this discrimination. The Mediterranean
race in particular has never manifested the same amount of race feeling.
The Arabs have tended to receive the Negro almost on terms of equality,
partly on religious grounds; it seems probable that the decadence of the
Arabs is largely due to their miscegenation.

[130] Mecklin, _op. cit._, p. 147.

[131] Blascoer, Frances, _Colored School Children in New York_, Public
Education Association of the City of New York, 1915. The preface, from
which the quotation is taken, is by Eleanor Hope Johnson, chairman of
the committee on hygiene of school children.

[132] Mecklin, _op. cit._, p. 32.

[133] The Negro's contribution has perhaps been most noteworthy in
music. This does not necessarily show advanced evolution; August
Weismann long ago pointed out that music is a primitive accomplishment.
For an outline of what the Negro race has achieved, particularly in
America, see the _Negro Year Book_, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

[134] _Social Problems; Their Treatment, Past, Present and Future_, p.
8, London, 1912.

[135] Stetson, G. R., "Memory Tests on Black and White Children,"
_Psych. Rev._, 1897, p. 285. See also MacDonald, A., in _Rep. U. S.
Comm. of Educ.,_ 1897-98.

[136] Mayo, M. J., "The Mental Capacity of the American Negro," _Arch.
of Psych._, No. 28.

[137] Phillips, B. A., "Retardation in the Elementary Schools of
Philadelphia," _Psych. Clinic_, VI, pp. 79-90; "The Binet Tests Applied
to Colored Children," _ibid._, VIII, pp. 190-196.

[138] Strong, A. C., _Ped. Sem._, XX, pp. 485-515.

[139] Pyle, W. H., "The Mind of the Negro Child," _School and Society_,
I, pp. 357-360.

[140] Ferguson, G. O., Jr., "The Psychology of the Negro," _Arch. of
Psych._ No. 36, April, 1916.

[141] Though the Negro is not assimilable, he is here to stay; he should
therefore be helped to develop along his own lines. It is desirable not
to subject him to too severe a competition with whites; yet such
competition, acting as a stimulus, is probably responsible for part of
his rapid progress during the last century, a progress which would not
have been possible in a country where Negroes competed only with each
other. The best way to temper competition is by di