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Title: The Educated Negro and His Mission
The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 8
Author: W. S. Scarborough
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Language: English
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The American Negro Academy.
OCCASIONAL PAPERS NO. 8.
The Educated Negro and His Mission.
By
W. S. SCARBOROUGH.
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.:
Published by the Academy,
1903
The Educated Negro and His Mission.
Human thought is like a pendulum. It sways from belief to belief, from theory to theory, from plan to plan, and the length of its vibrations is governed by a multitude of contending forces operating from both within and without. Two of these influences, in the present age, are all potential. One is the ardent desire to find the best ways and means by which the human race may hasten on its varied development, and the other is the strenuous determination to discover what may be styled the Northwest
passage to that coveted result.
The consequence is that, in this determined reach for all that humanity craves for itself and for its civilization, the oscillations of thought and endeavor are oftimes marked by notable extremes. Especially has this been true in lines of education. Again and again has it been sought to wheel the educational car upon new tracks where exaggerated views, revolutionary ideas, radical methods have caused the eyes of the world to be focused upon the attempt, and no movement within the arc that the world’s opinions have traversed has been unnoticed.
These changing sentiments in regard to education have been most noticeable in their bearing upon the Negro race. It is conceded that material tendencies are characteristic of the present age. Romance, sentiment, idealism in life and letters, struggle as they may, are swept aside by the vigorous commercialism that has taken possession