BIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS: RACE AND GEOGRAPHY loi 



truth or falsity of the abstraction, and that is a question to be decided by the 

 weight of much evidence and analysis. 



58 Op. cit., pp. 147-158. 



59 Cf. Edman, Human Traits: 'Many psychologists and sociologists, such as 

 McDougall, Bagehot, and Lang, attribute the superiority in culture and social 

 organization of the European races over, say, the Chinese and East Indians, to 

 the fighting instinct' (p. 114). 'But from indications of experiments already 

 made, these so-called (and for practical purposes genuine) intellectual differ- 

 ences between the individuals of different races must be attributed to differ- 

 ences in environment. Races as races seem to be equally gifted' (p. 198). 



60 Guerard, French Civilization, p. 36. 



61 Dunn and Dobzhansky, p. 115. 



62 Guerard, Literature and Society, p. 49. 



