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Despite the fact that the nineteenth century saw an upsurge in the power of laboring class and a fight toward economic equality and political democracy, this movement and battle was made fiercer and less successful and logged far behind the accumulation of wealth, because in population opinion labor was fundamentally degrading and the just burden of inferior peoples. Luxury and plenty for the few and poverty for the many was looked upon as inevitable in the course of nature. In addition to this, it went without saying that the white people of Europe had a right to live upon the labor and property of the colored peoples of the world. The white race was pictured as “pure” and superior; that black race as dirty, stupid, and inevitably inferior; the yellow race as sharing, in deception and cowardice, much of this color inferiority; while mixture of races was considered the prime cause of degradation and failure in civilization. Everything great, everything fine, everything really successful in human culture was white….. In order to prove this, even black people in India and Africa were labeled as “white” if they showed any trace of progress; and, on the other hand, any progress by colored people was attributed to some intermixture, ancient or modern, of white blood or some influence of white civilization