Sta,—Like many progressive people, your corre- spondent Marjorie D. Hollowood
seems to believe that the racial problem is a scientific one, and that sufficient knowledge of facts is needed for its solu- tion. But it is mainly a question of aesthetics and taste, and has very little to do with facts. Those opposing 'miscegenation' believe, or just fccl, that a white skin is a most beautiful thing. They admire the physical types depicted by the Greeks, the Renaissance artists, by Goya, Manet and Renoir (Oh for Renoir's rosy maidens!) A recognisable race is often the precipitation of a long series of mixed breeding, generally of related, not violently opposed, types (many primitive races may be much 'purer' than ours). This final product, as we sec it around us and in the masterworks of European art, is a thing of great value, worthy of being defended. After all, we do not know what intermarriage on a large scale with coloured peoples would lead to—it seems highly improbable that it would be an improvement on our present mixture.
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