520 HUMAN BIOLOGY 



Going back again to Table i, it is interesting to note that 

 of all the people in the world just under 37 per cent are 

 Christians, and just over 63 per cent are not. This should be 

 encouraging to missionaries. So also, perhaps, should be 

 the fact that no other single rehgious faith has anything Hke 

 as large a proportion of the people on the earth as has 

 Christianity. The nearest is Confucianism and Taoism, 

 with 19 per cent. 



Again, however it is clear that mere size is not all. 

 There are more fundamental biological considerations. 

 The Jews constitute less than i per cent of the people of the 

 earth.* Is there anyone who would venture the assertion 

 that their proportionate influence in human affairs is of 

 the order of i per cent? Whether "chosen " or not they are as a 

 people differentiated, in a statistical sense, from the rest 

 of mankind by the most objective of tests, success in life 

 and influence and power in the control of human affairs on a 

 world-wide scale. And it is equally plain that the basis of 

 their differentiation must be constitutional in the biological 

 sense. Theirs has never been an easy environment, physical 

 or biological. A differentiated tenth of any herd is never 

 hkely to have an easy time. The crowd is against them. 

 And it is a big and rough crowd. 



There is perhaps room for legitimate pride on the part of 

 somebody that, on the record, the people of North America 

 seem to be most tolerant of differences in rehgious faith of 

 any in the world. For whereas 96 per cent of the people in 

 Europe are Christians, and only 4 per cent Non-Christian, 

 and whereas 97 per cent of the people of Asia are Non- 

 Christian and only 3 per cent Christian, in North America 

 approximately i person in every 5 is not even technically a 

 Christian. In this 80 per cent Christian population there are 

 inchided also, and mainly without prejudice, an appreciable 

 number of devotees of every main brand of exotic faith except 



* No one can discuss the Jews realistically without being accused, either by 

 Jew or by Gentile, of having confused race and religion. The merits of this 

 controversy seem to be few and slight. For the purpose of the present discussion 

 it is sufficient to state the fact that, of the persons who are set down in Table i 

 above as Jews, an overwhelmingly large proportion are biologically differ- 

 entiated in a whole series of respects, anatomical, physiological and psycho- 

 logical from the rest of mankind. Whether they are called a race, or are not 

 so called, is of no importance in the present connection. 



