CHAPTER VII
Passion and Criminality in the Negro: Lynch Law
and Other Questions.
As the development of the body in man and all other animals has been a matter of evolution, so too has been the growth and development of all the psychological attributes in us, using the latter term in its most far-reaching sense. This being true, it at once becomes evident that the lower the position held by any particular race of mankind in the scale of morphological development, the lower will all the passions, instincts, morals, emotions and aims be found to be as exemplified in that race. To this universal rule and all its variations and refinement, the typical negro forms no exception, and it is equally applicable to every grade of hybrid produced by crossing the negro with other races, however difficult it may be sometimes for us to discern it.
In the negro all passions, emotions and ambitions are almost wholly subservient to the sensual instinct, and that quite apart from the sexual or procreative instinct, for an individual of this race is yet to be found who has ever had congress with the opposite sex, having only in mind the making of a child. They copulate solely for the gratification of the passion — for the erotic pleasure it affords them. In other words, negroes are purely animal, that is, in the sense of
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