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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

"The Souls of Black Folk"

And all this is gained only by human
strife and longing; by ceaseless training and education; by
founding Right on righteousness and Truth on the unham-
pered search for Truth; by founding the common school on
the university, and the industrial school on the common
school; and weaving thus a system, not a distortion, and
bringing a birth, not an abortion.

When night falls on the City of a Hundred Hills, a wind
gathers itself from the seas and comes murmuring westward.
And at its bidding, the smoke of the drowsy factories sweeps
down upon the mighty city and covers it like a pall, while
yonder at the University the stars twinkle above Stone Hall.
And they say that yon gray mist is the tunic of Atalanta
pausing over her golden apples. Fly, my maiden, fly, for
yonder comes Hippomenes!



VI
Of the Training of Black Men
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
OMAR KHAYYAM (FITZGERALD).

From the shimmering swirl of waters where many, many
thoughts ago the slave-ship first saw the square tower of
Jamestown, have flowed down to our day three streams of
thinking: one swollen from the larger world here and over-
seas, saying, the multiplying of human wants in culture-lands
calls for the world-wide cooperation of men in satisfying
them.


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