First, that racial characteristics are largely determined by environment.
Second, that race prejudice is an artificial product of the mind, induced by various influences.
Third, that in the highest and lowest spheres of thought and activity, all races are alike.
Fourth, that every human being, no matter what his colour, race, faith or class, has a right to earn the respect of his neighbour and his community, by virtue of what he himself is.
Fifth, that the brotherhood of man will become an established fact as soon as each man determines to live like a brother in his relation to his fellows.
Sixth, that Christianity has in its spirit the solution of class and race problems; but that in its practice it is lamentably far from solving them.
Seventh, that he who wishes to enter into fellowship with the nation or race with which he lives must free himself from all isolating practices and beliefs.
Eighth, that entrance into such a large human relationship has to be “bought with a price” and that it is a price worth paying; for there is no loftier human experience than that of becoming one with all mankind.
To those who do not consider a book worth reading, unless it “ends well,” let me say this: If a good fairy were to come from the fairy-land of my childhood (of course I had a fairy-land) and were to ask me, as she always asked the children in the stories I used to read, that I make three wishes, and she would grant them all, I could make but one wish. Not for wealth, although I could use it; not for strength, although I need it; not for wisdom, although I lack it. My one wish, and this the fairies cannot grant me, would be, that I may have grace given me to be a man to the end, and to the end, love my brother man with all the passion of my soul.
THE WORKS OF
NORMAN DUNCAN