CHAPTER VII 



RACIAL EXPERIENCE 



THE fittest are evidently those who de- 

 vote their energy and effort primarily 



to the development of the highest pow- 

 ers of greatest capacity and promise. The an- 

 cestral attainments are neither suppressed nor 

 neglected. Digestion and muscular power, 

 shrewdness and practical wisdom, all are kept 

 at their best, but always subordinated to the 

 service of the still higher powxr or faculty not 

 yet fully enthroned and supreme in the race or 

 the individual. The fittest hold fast to the best 

 in the past, but, being progressive, look toward 

 and into the future. Without such men and 

 women evolution is impossible and stagnation 

 sure. 



Faith is at least nothing less than the work- 

 ing hypothesis of the life of a great man. The 

 greater the man, the higher and farther removed 

 the goal of his life and efforts, the more unat- 



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