APPENDIX VI. The following booklet, published by the Missionary Education Movement (156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, $.25), and the Laymen's Missionary Movement, was designed as a course of study for classes of men. The Editorial Note and the Preface adequately describe the purposes of the publication. Especial attention is called to the bibliography. For convenience and economy this book is reprinted here from the original plates. mous fecundity and reckless disregard of life will enable her to raise such enormous armies and navies as to render successful competition impossible by the nations of the West. 3. The Racial Factor. Asiatic blood, brains and civilization are inherently inferior to those of the white races. They are moreover completely unassimilable. An Asiatic is always Asiatic in ideas, ideals, motives and character, and cannot possibly become Caucasian. The intermarriage of Caucasians and Asiatics is abhorrent; the offspring are mongrels, inheriting the bad qualities of both races, the good qualities of neither. All offspring, moreover, seeing they have Asiatic blood, are essentially Asiatic. The supremacy of Asiatics through low economic standards and bare military force will mean the incursion into the white man's land of millions of Asiatics. This will inevitably not only reduce the western scale of life but will also render inevitable wide intermarriage of Asiatics and Caucasians, insuring thus the final downfall of the white man with his civilization and the complete Asiatization of the world. The above are the deserve careful study. factors usually urged. They Are they unadulterated truth or do they contain also elements of error? If the latter, how much is true and how much false? 4. The Moral Factor. (a) How have the advanced and powerful nations of the West been treating the nations and races of Asia? Have they been solicitous for righteousness and justice? In seeking their own advantage have they also sought the advantage of America and the Orient OUTLINES OF A CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY BY SIDNEY L. GULICK Secretary of the Commission on Peace and Arbitration of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Secretary of the American Branch of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches Missionary in Japan under the American Board since 1887 Published jointly by Missionary Education Movement and Laymen's Missionary Movement NEW YORK MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT follows the dawn. Asia is awaking. Napoleon described Asia as a sleeping giant. "Let her sleep," he said; "for when Asia awakes she will shake the world." Does not that depend on the spirit that rules her? And does not that spirit depend on the kind of treatment she receives from the white man? Stated in the briefest terms, the problem is to adjust the relations of the great nations of the East and the West in such ways that their new contact shall be mutually advantageous rather than disastrous. Three distinct policies may be distinguished among the proposals that are now urged by which to meet the Asiatic "menace." The respective merits and defects of these policies should be widely studied and understood, for in the final solution of the whole problem, so far as America is concerned, the rank and file of the responsible citizenship is vitally involved. In their hands. lies the decision. The consequences of this decision will affect in a vital way, for weal or for wo, the whole nation and every individual in it. REFERENCE LITERATURE ON CHAPTER I For a general survey of important reference literature see General Bibliography at the close of the book. For a more adequate treatment of the subject matter touched upon in this chapter the reader is referred to the following books. Gulick, The Fight for Peace (1915). Chapters I-V, IX and XVIII. Lynch, The Last War (1915). Jefferson, Christianity and War (1915). Ainslie, Christ or Napoleon. Which? (1914). In regard to the literature suggested for each chapter and in the bibliographies at the end of the book the student should |