Racial Values in the War 



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all the Aryan groups in Europe. In 

 development of her inheritance she is 

 the youngest — and youth is always full 

 of possibilities." 



"Germany's advantage is in the new- 

 ness of her vigor, the abundance of her 

 develo]Ded ability, and the small propor- 

 tion of her human dross. Gennany has 

 mistaken these for symptoms of racial 

 superiority. While there is nothing in 

 them to raise the world's civilization 

 into realms unattained, they do assure 

 to Germany a very significant length 

 and strength of racial life for the at- 

 tainment of those ideals of which the 

 GeiTnan inheritance is capable. They 

 give to the German a survival value 

 which other Aryan stocks in Europe do 

 not possess. For this reason an esti- 

 mate of Germany's exceptional pros- 

 pects for survival should be of especial 

 interest. 



"Germany's survival values can be 

 more safely measured against those of 

 other peoples than in terms of years or 

 centuries. In casting about for com- 

 parisons, it becomes evident that Europe 

 has no stock that seems to promise the 

 lasting quality of the German. But 

 in America, Australia, New Zealand — in 

 the stocks which for centuries have been 

 going out from Great Britain to develop 

 her possessions — there is the vigor and 

 richness of genetic values that usually 

 attend migration and selective develop- 

 ment under natural conditions. These 

 stocks bid for a future in every way com- 

 parable with the future of the German." 



There is likely, then, to be a long 

 struggle between the Germans and the 

 Engli.h-fpeaking nations for world 

 suprem^acy. "The decision, if it must 

 come, will eventually rest upon survival 

 of racial values. What, then, are the 

 comparative racial prospects of Ger- 

 many and the various English-speaking 

 peoples ? 



"One outstanding difference is that 

 Germany, self -sustained, fully populated 

 will continue to hold an advantage she 

 has held from the beginning, in being 

 able to maintain the integrity and purity 

 of her stocks against deteriorating mix- 

 tures. Without exception, the younger 

 English-speaking peoples — and even 

 England herself — have sought in varying 



degree the temporary advantage that 

 comes from importing inferior stocks to 

 do their less pleasant tasks. 



HANDICAPS OF AMERICA 



"Let us consider first our own racial 

 prospect. In the three preceding chap- 

 ters we have studied the results in the 

 United States of this commercially 

 profitable but racially suicidal mingling 

 of unlike peoples. The African infusion, 

 and the past, present, and future impor- 

 tations from non-progressive foreign 

 stocks, together constitute what might 

 be called an extraneous load upon our 

 racial values. It is significant that a 

 similar load of anything like its propor- 

 tions does not rest upon any other 

 English-speaking peoples, except, per- 

 haps. South Africa. This seems to be a 

 special handicap put upon the United 

 States of America. Although dispro- 

 portionate increase of superior and 

 inferior stocks rem.ains the chief factor in 

 racial depreciation among all civilized 

 peoples, our own special handicap is not 

 to be passed over lightly. The ten- 

 dency of twenty or more distinct peoples 

 to maintain a relative separateness of 

 ideals, while living as neighbors and 

 outwardly subscribing to American citi- 

 zenship, is only a few degrees less 

 threatening than would be a free inter- 

 mixture of all their inheritances. A 

 long and persistent intermixture would 

 tend to develop social unity in the much- 

 heralded "true American" of the Melt- 

 ing-Pot, but may heaven preserve us 

 from a unity that comes with the passive 

 worthlessness of a downwardbred mon- 

 grel type. We can better afford racial 

 separateness, with all its menace to 

 social peace. 



"Yet these rigid alternatives hold us 

 to a most perplexing condition of sus- 

 pended effectiveness; a workable social 

 understanding cannot be forced against 

 the persistent separateness of so many 

 peoples, while a decent regard for the 

 future of the race should turn us from 

 the dull harmony of mongrelism. There 

 seems to be no way out; but that very 

 fact should restrain us from getting any 

 farther in. In the light of present know- 

 ledge, further loading up with inferior 

 stocks would be deliberate .suicide. 



