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repeat what is said every day by individual men. This does not imply 

 that the lower man or the lower race need be robbed, enslaved or exter- 

 minated. Nor that a lower race may not produce its own prophets or 

 scholars or heroes. The tribe of Australian bushmen is counted one of 

 the lowest on earth. Not long ago I met in Adelaide, a full-blooded 

 "Black-fellow," broad-minded and competent, a mechanical engineer 

 by profession, a man who would hold his own in any community. That 

 race is lowest which shows, on the whole, least capacity for self-elevation. 

 "All men are born free and equal," it is asserted, but such equality is 

 political only. It can not be biological. In every race are certain 

 strains having capacities not attainable by the mass. There should be 

 equality of start, equality before the law, but there will always be differ- 

 ences of attainment. The gifts of potentiality, unit characters of the 

 germ-plasm, are not shared by all people of the same race. The average 

 status of one may be below that of another, and the highest possibilities 

 of one type may be greater than that of another. In general, the 

 highest range of possibilities in every field has been reached by the 

 " blonde races " of Europe. Groups of less individual or of less aggre- 

 gate achievement may properly be regarded as "lower." 



