weakness of war-worn Rome that gave the 

 Germanic races their first opportunity. And 

 the process is recorded in history as the fall 

 of Rome. ^ 



" Out of every hundred thousand strong men, 

 eighty thousand were slain. Out of every hun- 

 dred thousand weaklings ninety to ninety-five 

 thousand were left to survived This is Dr. 

 Seeck's calculation, and the biological sig- 

 nificance of such mathematics must be evi- 

 dent at once. Dr. Seeck speaks with scorn 

 of the idea that Rome fell from the decay 

 of old age, from the corruption of luxury, 

 from neglect of military tactics or from the 

 over-diffusion of culture. 



'^It is inconceivable that the mass of Ro- 

 mans suffered from over-culture."^ "In 

 condemning thesinful luxury ofwealthy Ro- 

 mans, we forget that the trade-lords of the 



^*'Die Ausrottung der Besten, die jenen schwa- 

 cheren Volken die Vernichtung brachte, hat die starken 

 Germanen erst befahigt, auf den Triimmern der anti- 

 ken Welt neue dauernde Gemeinschaften zu errichten." 

 — Otto Seeck. 



2 ** Damitsprechend hat man das Wort ' Ueberkultur' 

 uberhaupt erfunden, als wenn ein zu grosses Maass von 

 Kultur uberhaupt denkbar ware." — Otto Seeck. 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



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