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There are anthropologists who reckon them biologi- 

 cally the most advanced people living today. 



There is another allied but somewhat different 

 theory regarding the human benefits conferred by 

 war which holds that even though in direct personal 

 selection the war system is dysgenic, it does tend to 

 select the fittest races and nations for survival. This 

 theory is usually applied to European history, w^here 

 in the long struggle of advanced European nations 

 against backward poorly-equipped natives of Amer- 

 ica, Asia, Australia and Africa, victory has eventu- 

 ally rested with the Europeans. Whatever the in- 

 trinsic human merits of the case, a question on which 

 Hindus may disagree with Englishmen, there can be 

 no doubt that such conflicts have been won by the 

 nation which possesses the more modern social or- 

 ganization and the better gadgets with which to 

 fight; and the winning nation has not hesitated to 

 levy on the weaker one for whatever of its posses- 

 sions and services it could utilize for its own 

 advantage. 



When, however, one European nation fights an- 

 other, as, for example, France and Germany, who 

 can maintain that the nation that won at Waterloo 

 and in 1918 is superior to the people who won at 

 Leipzig and Sedan? Or, to come closer home, does 

 the fact that the Confederacy lost the war between 



