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hordes of persons innately susceptible to microbic 

 diseases, because of the improved sanitation, in the 

 East, the teeming millions of China have been evolved 

 in the unspeakable insanitation of its cities, and 

 in many instances, under a tropical sun. The 

 armies of the East and West would meet on 

 unsanitary battlefields. That of the East is com- 

 posed of men evolved under unsanitary conditions, 

 and therefore more or less immune or only 

 difficultly susceptible to microbic attacks. But the 

 army of the West is full of soldiers reared under 

 softer conditions, derived from ancestors who for 

 generations have evolved under circumstances where 

 the constitutionally weak as well as strong survived. 

 That army must contain a large proportion, perhaps the 

 major part, of persons susceptible to microbic attacks. 

 Under such circumstances, the East has an advantage 

 over the West. The one army will be decimated by 

 epidemics, the other not. The sceptre will pass 

 from the nations which feared death too much and 

 loved life too well, to those who faced the struggle of 

 existence with a hardier bravery and a more Spartan 

 resignation. And, again in the history of Mankind, 

 the ''breath of the Angel" will decimate another 

 army — that of the West, while it lies during the 

 night outside the camp of the East — as in ancient 

 days, before the sleeping army of the Jews, it 

 withered the host of the Assyrians and destroyed 

 them to a man. 



This raises a further consideration which I am 

 impelled to urge. Even though we grant, for the sake 

 of discussion, that it is possible to prevent the 



