subject to the operation of another law, the 

 operation of reversed selection, or the bio- 

 logical "law of diminishingreturns." In 

 other words, breeding from an inferior stock 

 is the sole agency in race degeneration, as 

 selection natural or artificial along one line 

 or another is the sole agency in race prog- 

 ress. 



And all laws of probabilities and of aver- 

 ages are subject to a still higher law, the 

 primal law of biology, which no cross-cur- 

 rent of life can overrule or modify: Like the 

 seed is the harvest. 



Ruskin once said that "war is the foun- 

 dation of all high virtues and faculties of 

 men." As well might the maker of phrases 

 say that fire is the builder of the forest, for 

 only in the flame of destruction do we real- 

 ize the warmth and strength that lie in the 

 heart of oak. Another writer, Hardwick, 

 declares that " war is essential to the life of 

 a nation ; war strengthens a nation morally, 

 mentally and physically." Such statements 

 as these set all history at defiance. War can 

 only waste and corrupt. " All war is bad, 

 some only worse than others." ''War has 



The 

 Human 



Harvest 



War as a 

 source of 

 national 

 strength 



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