26 MAN THE ANIMAL 



ing, if any). That philosophy also contends that the Jews really, 

 on a just view, ought properly to be classified with infra-human 

 primates rather than as men. Not a few professional Southerners 

 of the ancien regime have held similar views about Negroes. But 

 the indubitable if sometimes uncomfortable fact remains that 

 Aryans and Jews, or whites and Negroes, he or she as the case 

 may be, are exuberantly capable of producing racially mixed 

 babies by the quite normal and usual technique appropriate to 

 such matters. 



This universal fertility amongst mankind is a phenomenon 

 of extreme importance in human biology. In the beginning of 

 man's evolutionary emergence as a new form of life it was pre- 

 sumably of some help in the struggle for survival. But with the 

 very limited powers of getting about that he then had the sta- 

 tistical and social consequences could not have been very great. 

 By the time man had subdued the horse and the camel to his 

 uses, however, and had learned that rafts and boats made it 

 possible for him to "walk on the water," what must have con- 

 siderably astonished him was the discovery that pretty much 

 wherever he went desirable girls were to be found, and that 

 nature could be depended on to take its course there just as at 

 home. 



One of the greatest consequences of the process of organ- 

 adding that came with the development of the arts and sciences, 

 and the consequent control and use of natural forces, was an 

 enormously increased facility and speed of transportation and 

 communication, a trend that we have not seen the end of yet. 

 As the shrewdest writer on politics since Machiavelli says: 

 "During the lifetime of many of us the world has shrivelled 

 and puckered like a child's balloon slowly deflating, so that now 

 we find ourselves cheek-by-jowl with peoples and regions that 

 fifty years ago were regarded as half mythical. And not only 

 do we see strange faces at close quarters, but we are beginning 

 to have confidence that some day we may be able to read the 

 hearts that belong to them." 



In a world "shrivelled" by the ease and rapidity of transporta- 

 tion there inevitably and automatically are created more op- 



