Morals as a Factor in Organic Evolution 6Q5 



States, along with other colonies of Britain and with other 

 nations, came into possession of great, fertile, but warm areas, 

 from which they proenvironed possible huge crops. But 

 labor was scarce and uncertain. The richer and dominating 

 element secured, often by morally degraded means, white 

 and black indentured bond-servants. But a proenvironal 

 plan resulted therefrom for securing an unlimited supply of 

 strong ignorant black labor. The plan originated with a few 

 northern and most southern whites; the labor of the plan was 

 secured on the slave-making principle. In proenvironal response, 

 by out-reaching to Africa, the slave-labor was cruelly secured. 



And to analyze somewhat minutely the white man's plan, 

 this resulted from combination of many environal stimuli 

 cumulated in the brain. Chemo tactic, heliotactic, thigmo- 

 tactic, tonotactic stimuli were started as thoughts of rich 

 food, fine homes, pictures, sumptuous furnishings, pianos, 

 banjos, and other musical instruments, gay and extensive 

 gardens pleasing to the eye and to the nostrils, all rose before 

 the mind. These were joined into a resultant proenvironal 

 response in the higher nerve cells of the brain, and gradually 

 took practical shape on "the plantation." So an inferior 

 uncivilized human infusion became increasingly mixed with 

 the higher white population. For, whether in the relation 

 of home servants, of nurses, of coachmen, of attendants, or 

 of field workers, the association became so close and inter- 

 related that degradation of the white stock ensued. So the 

 coon talk, the sensuous tendencies, the brutal slavcrtreat- 

 ment, the enervating ease, developed in the latter as an exact 

 biological "action" and "reaction" process. 



The increasing wealth and luxury of the South, when brought 

 in contact with the hardy independence of the North, started 

 those stimuli of the higher nerve centers, such as em^, jeal- 

 ousy, hatred, opposition to common plans, that Spencer and 

 Lindsay have traced the progress of from lower animals up 

 to man. 



So such stimuli, cumulated into mental resultants, started 

 two divergent proenvironal moral lines in the minds of dwellers 



