Excerpt from The Law of the White Circle There are probably very few people of good sense who would care to write a story of race conflict and riot. For myself it has not been a pleasure, but a duty. It has seemed to many of us that those novelists who have chosen the subject have spent too large a part of their time in expostulations concern ing negro inferiority, and too little in arraignment of our white lepers who have converted a disaster into dyna mite. The object of this book is not to call the negro a black brute and the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.