To him, conservation-a term just becoming politically fashionable-meant ' not only the preservation of natural resources, but the prevention of the monopoly of natural resources, so they should inhere in the people as a whole.'
In a fundamental disagreement with Social Darwinist thinkers, Roosevelt condemned 'that baleful law of natural selection which tells against the survival of some of the most desirable classes.' His own field studies, both scientific and political, has shown him how populous species, whose competition was ferocious, advanced more slowly than those whose selection was determined by reasonable numbers and controlled by certain laws of behaviour As with guinea pigs, so with Slavs; as with lions, so with Anglo-Saxons. (查看原文)
For those blacks who did not, Roosevelt had little political sympathy. The Georgian blood of his unreconstructed mother persuaded him that the Fifteenth Amendment had been 'a mistake', and that, in nine cases out of ten, disfranchisement was justified. Blacks were better suited for service than suffrage; on the whole, they were' altogether inferior to the whites'.
Yet Roosevelt believed [as most Americans did not] that this inferiority was temporary. The arguments of Charles Darwin, Jean Lamarck, and Gustave Le Bon convinced him that Washington's race was merely adolescent, as his own had been in the seventeenth century. Negro advancement must' necessarily be painful'-witness the scars on Washington's face, his air of swarthy suffering- but equality would come, as black Americans, generati... (查看原文)
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