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 now in the foregoing chapters of this book defined exactly what the genus Homo is from the only view-point from which we can consistently consider man,— that is the biological one; and having, in following chapters, studied the negro race along similar lines and demonstrated the extreme undesirability of permitting that race to interbreed with the white race in the United States of America, we come at last, in the present chapter, to a point where it appears it would seem fitting to discuss briefly some of the remedies that may now be suggested to solve, or as far as possible alleviate, what now has come to be so widely known as the "negro problem" in this country.

All sorts of views have been taken of this matter and by all sorts of people. The uninformed layman, utterly lacking in a knowledge of the essential principles of general biology requisite to pass upon the dangers involved in permitting a mixture of the Anglo-Saxon and negro races to go on, naturally proposes the laissez-faire rule and claims that the condition will solve itself, and that it does not involve any problem. Then we read the various views of the situation entertained by the maudlin Christian and humanitarian; those of the politician and of the Southern agricultur- ( 152 )