different from English as Spanish is from Italian), its indigenous literature,
its characteristic arts; already these are visibly or raucously on their way.
“Racial” antipathies have some roots in ethnic origin, but they are also
generated, perhaps predominantly, by differences of acquired culture–of
language, dress, habits, morals, or religion. There is no cure for such
antipathies except a broadened education. A knowledge of history may
teach us that civilization is a co-operative product, that nearly all peoples
have contributed to it; it is our common heritage and debt; and the civilized
soul will reveal itself in treating every man or woman, however lowly, as a
representative of one of these creative and contributory groups.
