1). Following this line of reason ing, Haselden (1959, pp. 42 43) said that:
The white man cleaves Christian piety into two parts: the strong, virile virtues he applies exclu sively to himself; the apparently weak, passive vir tues he endorses especially for the Negro. . . . The white man takes the active and positive Christian adjectives for himself: noble, manly, wise, strong, courageous; he recommends the passive and negative Christian adjectives to the Negro: patient, long suffering, humble, self effacing, considerate, sub missive, childlike, meek.
The prevailing view of the Anglo Saxon, Protestant major ity in the United States of the late nineteenth century was expressed by Josia Strong, who was the general secretary of the powerful and Protestant Evangelical Alliance. He stated that:
It seems to me that God . . . is here training the Anglo Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the World's future . . . . when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter a new stage of its history the final competition of
races, for which the Anglo Saxon is being schooled. Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States will assert itself. Then this race of unequalled energy, with all the majesty of numbers and the might of wealth behind it the representative . . . of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, and the highest civilization having developed peculiarly aggressive traits calcu lated to impress its institutions upon mankind, will spread itself over the earth. And can anyone doubt that the result of this competition of the races will be the survival of the fittest (Strong, 1885, p. 222). Is it not reasonable to believe that this race is des tined to dispossess many weaker ones, assimilate others, and mould the remainder, until ...