The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR
AGAINST WHITE WORLD-SUPREMACY
BY LOTHROP STODDARD, A.M., Ph.D. (Harv.) AUTHOR OF “THE STAKES OF THE WAR,” “PRESENT-DAY EUROPE: ITS NATIONAL STATES OF MIND,” “THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO,” ETC.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MADISON GRANT CHAIRMAN NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY; TRUSTEE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; COUNCILLOR AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF “THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE”
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1921
Copyright, 1920, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
All rights reserved
Published April, 1920 Reprinted June, July, September, October, 1920; February, 1921

More than a decade ago I became convinced that the key-note of twentieth-century world-politics would be the relations between the primary races of mankind. Momentous modifications of existing race-relations were evidently impending, and nothing could be more vital to the course of human evolution than the character of these modifications, since upon the quality of human life all else depends.
Accordingly, my attention was thenceforth largely directed to racial matters. In the preface to an historical monograph (“The French Revolution in San Domingo”) written shortly before the Great War, I stated: “The world-wide struggle between the primary races of mankind—the ‘conflict of color,’ as it has been happily termed—bids fair to be the fundamental problem of the twentieth century, and great communities like the United States of America, the South African Confederation, and Australasia regard the ‘color question’ as perhaps the gravest problem of the future.”
Those lines were penned in June, 1914. Before their publication the Great War had burst upon the world. At that time several reviewers commented upon the above dictum and wondered whether, had I written two months later, I should have held a different opinion.