It is the question which touches the marrow of the whole discussion about the average negro capacity; but the time has been too short and the experiments have been too incomplete as yet to furnish satisfactory data for its solution.
Reid reflects on the challenges of assessing the educational capacity of formerly enslaved individuals.
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We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.