"De l'atavisme: Considérations sur la Philosophie pratique" / "On Atavism: Considerations on Practical Philosophy"
Not having found any scientific proof to support the ideas of subordination that they were advocating, the negrophobes set about annihilating the effectiveness of our efforts and slowing, as much as possible, the progress of Black evolution, by propagating and exaggerating the effects of the gruesome theory of atavism.
Atavism, as everyone knows, is that curious ethnological phenomenon whereby individuals of a race inherit certain qualities or certain defects that characterize, not always their direct progenitors, but their ancestors from a more or less distant generation.
There is no weapon that our enemies have used more often. Knowing that nothing is more mortal for energy than the sentiment of our weakness, of our impotence, in the presence of forces of which the inevitable action cannot be vanquished, they speak endlessly of fatalities that would annihilate all the efforts of our own activity.