ABSTRACT
The American problems of minorities exist on three different planes. There is the racial Negro minority, which raises issues of growing rather than of lesser intensity and the problem of religious minorities is far most important of the Jews. This chapter shows the minority problems in the United States is only a particular example of what has been going on everywhere and what still is a practically universal problem. Then shows not only how a degraded human nature becomes itself unconscious that new circumstances can evoke its humanity, but also that those who are what Ruskin so rightly calls the 'slave-masters' become conscious, after a time, of nothing but the degradation of their slaves, and thus impervious to any argument which involves a claim on their behalf for the recognition of their humanity. America nears in each decade the stage in which it drives to the realization that it can have either finance capitalism or democracy, but not both.
