on with the same hope of progress that has been the
lifting motive in all race-history? What would hap-
pen to men generally if aspiration toward a larger
and freer life were not merely discouraged, but
baulked and barred as by some outer fate? To keep
any people where it is, means that its growth is to
stop, Can it be that we whites aim solely to use the
negro for our comfort or profit; that through calcu-
lating legislation or tacit boycott, we would deprive
him of that one supreme good that gives value to our
own lives? The great prizes of life are in our chances
to get on and up. For these hopes even war has been
made sacred."

In this way, Baldwin pictures the situation. It
seems to him inhuman and also impossible. It is im-
possible because, as a nation, we have committed
ourselves to the progressive education of the colored
race in this country. The scattered seed of more
than two hundred millions of "educational money"
deliberately and officially expended by the southern
states with splendid generosity is already creating
its own ferment of growth and progress in the black
race. To say that the negro shall stay where, he is,
means that this education must come to an end.
Education stands for unrest. It stands for new and
more ardent "hopes." It stands for deep and in-
extinguishable endeavor toward larger uses of every
faculty.

Dr. Washington says that Baldwin always sent

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