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THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1922
The Passing of the Great Race"
Some six or eight months ago I re-
viewed Madison Grant's "The Passing
of the Great Race" (Scribners). Since
then a seventh edition has been pub-
lished, the fourth revised edition of
the work. The reason I review it now
is because of a remarkable "Documen-
tary Supplement" of approximately
140 pages which had been appended.
More about this later.
In 1916, when the first edition came
out, there was a small furor in limited
circles, which grew greater with the
second printing. When the second re-
vised edition was issued there were
a few worried looks on the faces of
those who believed in the eternal
equality of men, the Constitution of
the United States, and in environment
as the paramount factor in good citi-
zenship, knowledge, art, and state-
craft.
As the fourth, fifth and sixth print-
ings of the book came forth the Broth-
erhood of Man, the Epworth League,
and other overgrown Boy Scouts and
Campfire Girls decided to drown Mad-
Ison Grant with hallelujahs and hulla-
baloo, with Marx, Rousseau, and the
New Testament, with snivel, bibber,
and yammer, and the Befreiungstrieg
was on!
Slowly the arguments of Grant's op-
ponents took head, and in spite- of his
incisive philosophy and argument, in
spite of his;skillful adaptation of his-
tory to his theme, in spite of his bib-
liography, the socialists, sociologists,
welfare organizations, primary school
teachers, and other agents of Beelze-
hub raised hue and cry, coronach and
maudlin tears, saying that Grant had
no basis for his arguments.
Now comes the seventh printing, and
in this Grant fortifies his stand with
the aforementioned Documentary Sup-
plement. He has made a jump to col-
ors and gun, and is firing round after
round with telling effect. He hurls
his bibliography of 294 authors and
nearly twice as many books, and in
the Documentary Supplement down go
the exact references.
The mass of facts in this new ap-
pendix is little short of amazing. If
Grant's antagonists go through it with-
out doubts and qualms they will au-
tomatically separate themselves into
two classes, the supernatural and the
superstupid. In presenting _his refer-
ences and sources, book for book, and
page for page, Grant has given the
best authorities the libraries can sup-
ply in ,matters ethnological, anthro-
pological, historical, and geological.
Duds someoue question that there
are different races? Then Grant has
at hio with cephalic indices, frontal
angles, and cranial capacities, supra-
orbital ridges, and articulations of the
femur. Does someone doubt Natural
Selection? Then Grant hurls Darwin
and Haeckel, Breuil and Osborn at
him. Does someone question what
Grant has to say about ancient his-
tory? Then the doubter has Momm-
sen thrown at his head, or Plutarch,
or Flavius Josephus, and Herodotus.
Does someone, with a little more eru-
dition than the rest, dispute Grant's
prehistoric reckoning? Then he gets
Baron de Geer's glacial calculation
straight to the paunch.
I am eagerly awaiting the results
of this terrible broadside. Will some-
one go through Grant's bibliography?
Will someone take him up, point for
point? Will someone write a book of
opposition with a counter list of au-
thorities as long and as puissant? I
doubt it. It calls for more than beati-
By AMadison Grant
(A REVIEW BY G. D. E.)
tudes and the "bidding of beades"; it slowly out, that its strong character- distinction in "race, creed, or color,"
calls for downright study, hours and istics are recessive in the face of in- or else the native American must turn
days of exhausting work, careful com- filtration by inferior peoples. The the Cage of histdry and write 'Finis
pilation, shrewd analysis, and the foremost ethnologists agree with him Americae.' "
massing of facts and arguments. In in general. Grant grows a bit pessi- What Mr. Grant partly overlooks is
a word, it calls for brains and unre- mistic and gloomy, but I believe that that the Americans are but little bet-
lenting industry that will probably not he is every whit justified. ter than the worst of the races for
pay half as much as hack writing. Says he, in his introduction, "The allowing things to come to such a pass.
I trust that I need not go over days of the Civil War and the provin- He overlooks again how badly our
Grant's theme. He believes, briefly, cial sentimentalism which governed American Nordics have governed, how
in the superiority of the Nordic race, or misgoverned our public opinion are utterly unscrupulous they have been
physically and mentally, politically past, and this generation must com- at times, how the moneyed classes,
and artistically. He believes further pletely repudiate the proud' boast of mostly of pure Nordic blood, have been
that the blue-eyed race is passing! our fathers thatethey acknowledged no (Continued on Page 8)
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