ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews briefly some well-known historical situations. In tracing the rise of the Anglo-Saxons to their position as the master race of the world we shall omit consideration of the great Eastern civilizations from which Greece took a significant cultural heritage. There seems to be no basis for imputing racial antagonism to the Egyptians, Babylonians, or Persians. The general pattern of barbarian invasions was that of a succession of peoples of increasing cultural inferiority moving into areas of higher culture. One aspect of this era of barbarian invasion, the movement of Asiatics into Europe, is of especial significance. In Europe itself the policies of the Roman Catholic Church presented a bar to the development of racial antagonism. The capitalist exploitation of the colored workers, it should be observed, consigns them to employments and treatment that is humanly degrading.
