“The ideal of human brotherhood has become a practical possibility.”
- Date
- 1897
Meaning of “The ideal of human brotherhood has become a…”
Human solidarity is treated not merely as abstract sentiment but as an achievable political and social aim requiring organized effort and mutual recognition.
Where does it come from?
The Conservation of Races, closing programmatic resolutions. The sentence belongs to Du Bois’s 1897 argument about race organization and human brotherhood; period racial concepts remain historical context rather than modern science.