496 



The Journal of Heredity 



Upon this union depends the survival of 

 individuaHsm in its most \\holesome 

 aspect. 



Russia's outlook 



"Russia, because it is a land of im- 

 mense numbers and unknown racial 

 values, is poinilarly re^j^arded as a mijj;hty 

 reservoir of human possibilities, a\Aait- 

 ing only better environmental condi- 

 tions for their expression. 



"This is presuminj^ on ignorance. 

 Because Rvissiarl capacities seem to be 

 mostly untried, it is not safe to assume 

 either that they do or do not exist in 

 cjuality iitted for a self-sustainin^^ devel- 

 ojmient. The Slavic masses of Russia, 

 like every other people from Hottentot 

 to finest Aryan, come to a hit^her level 

 of existence under improved conditions, 

 \-et we have learned that very few, even 

 among the ablest races, actually con- 

 tribute to the maintenance of that higher 

 level. Our inquiry is not for peoples 

 capable of receiving from civilization; it 

 is for the few capable of giving to it. 

 This indicates the question which we 

 now ask of Russia. 



"To begin with, we must distinguish 

 between the numerous and variegated 

 Slavic peoples of Russia, and the half- 

 Teuton handful that not only dominates 

 but is the Russian Fmpirc as we know it, 

 so clo.sely is it identified with everything 

 constructive in Russian life. Russia 

 may be said to be an Asiatic monster 

 with a half-European head. It is in the 

 monster, not in the head, that Russia's 

 unknown racial values lie. 



"Russia embraces a most hetero- 

 geneous population of one hundred and 

 fifty million people, two-thirds Slavic, 

 nearly one-third rangnng from strong in- 

 fusion of Mongolian to Aryan mixtures 

 with inferior stocks of unknown origin. 

 In the absence of any definite racial 

 history, we are comjjelled to estimate 

 Russia's inheritance values largely by 

 inference from the degree of jjrogress 

 she had made in her contracts with other 

 peoples of Europe. 



"A strong argument against the pos- 

 session of any high degree of initiative 

 and creative cajiacity by the Slav is in 

 the very fact of his continued submis- 

 sion to domination by groups essentially 



foreign in blood. No true ArA'an stocks 

 leave the expression of their national, 

 commercial, and industrial life so gener- 

 ally to a foreign element. The natural 

 inference from this condition is that the 

 Slavic inheritance does not well com- 

 l^are with the Teutonic in the qualities 

 adapted for taking a leading jjart in 

 ci\"ilization. 



"Another convincing evidence of the 

 inferior quality of the Slavic inheritance 

 is in the slight contribution the Slav has 

 made to the world's attainments. From 

 her manufacturing processes to her art, 

 everything that is best in Russian life is 

 borrowed. Even the example and in- 

 spiration of his Iiuropean overlords have 

 not led the Sla\' to a degree of self- 

 expresMon that gives promise of any 

 unusual future for his people. 



"It is too early — a generation too 

 early — to assume that the recent over- 

 throw of the Czar and his government 

 means a democracy for Russia. We 

 might as well have hailed Mexico as a 

 glorious democracy when Maximilian 

 fell. Illiterate Russia has many years 

 of painful stitiggle, of slow education, 

 ahead of her before she can even deter- 

 mine the capacity of her suppressed 

 millions for self-government. 'Jlie revo- 

 lution was directed against Germans and 

 Pro-Genrans; there is unquestionably a 

 strong Teutonic infusion in the Slavic 

 upper classes that is Pro-Slavic, and will 

 act with the new regime. Russia may 

 have a more liberal government, but 

 for years to come it will be such as the 

 Teutonic-Slavic ruling class chooses to 

 give her. True democracy is a dream 

 for a people three-quarters of whom are 

 decades away from adequate self-expres- 

 sion. 



"To whatever heights the Slav may 

 attain, the indications are that those 

 heights will be below the level of the 

 l)ure Aryan. No persistent borrowers 

 or imitators of the Aryan civilization are 

 destined to supplant the Aryan so long 

 as he maintains his racial integrity. 

 Mere niunbers will never command his 

 homage." 



THIC VIC.OR OF GliRMANV 



"(iennany, from the viewpoint of 

 racial values, is the most interesting of 



