And as to the cost--all the wealth of the world, save that necessary for sheer decent existence and for the maintenance of past civilization, is, and of right ought to be, the property of the children for their education.
Du Bois argues that the wealth of the world should be invested in the education of future generations.
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A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.
This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.