234 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ANIMALS 



the States prove that the white people of the South 

 are racially inferior to those of the North? 



Actually, of course, we are not fighting racial wars 

 at present. What race won the World War, or for 

 that matter, lost it? Modern warfare among so-called 

 civilized powers probably does result in victory for 

 superior wealth, better organization, shrewder propa- 

 ganda, and other social achievements, but we have 

 little good evidence to link these social attributes 

 with racial stock, in spite of contemporary German 

 determination to assume the connection. 



Let us allow Popenoe and Johnson, (99) recog- 

 nized students of eugenics, to summarize this whole 

 inquiry into the biological justification of war. Writ- 

 ing in 1918, when the subject was near the top of 

 men's minds, they said: "When the quality of the 

 combatants is so high compared with the rest of the 

 world as during the Great War, no conceivable gains 

 can offset the loss. It is probably well within the facts 

 to assume that the period of the late war represents 

 a decline in inherent human quality greater than 

 in any similar length of time in the previous his- 

 tory of the world." 



It seems to me that such evidence and reasoning as 

 I have presented indicates pretty clearly that the 

 present system of international relations is biologi- 

 cally unsound. Attempts which have been made in 



