The number of white individuals who are practising with even reasonable approximation the democracy and unselfishness of Jesus Christ is so small and unimportant as to be fit subject for jest in Sunday supplements and in Punch, Life, Le Rire, and Fliegende Blätter.
Du Bois humorously points out the rarity of individuals who truly practice the democratic and selfless teachings of Jesus Christ.
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