Left to themselves, the negroes of Santo Domingo have destroyed what the French had already built.
In Mexico conditions get better, year after year.
In Santo Domingo conditions grow worse, year after year.
If the learned Doctor wants to make a study in contrasts, let him first read “Where Black Rules White,” by Hesketh Prichard, and then read “The Awakening of a Nation,” by Charles F. Lummis, and I venture to say that some of his cocky self-complacency as to the superiority of the negroes over the whites will ooze out of him.
As to Italy—can it be that Italy has done less in a thousand years than the negroes have done in thirty?
The greatest man that ever lived was of Italian extraction. Taine says that Napoleon was a true Italian in character and intellect. If that be true, then the two greatest men the world ever saw were Latins. Wherever the civilized man lives today his environment, his thoughts, his ideals, his achievements are more or less influenced by the life and work of Cæsar and Napoleon.
If any two men may be said to have created the material modern world those two Latins did it.
If modern Europe is any one man, it is Napoleon. His laws, schools—social, political, financial, educational institutions—have wrung from rulers ever since the homage of imitation.
In literature how illustrious is Italy?