Racial Experience 



'' Qualities of education, habit, feeling, and 

 character have a tendency alv/ays to grow in by 

 long continuance, and become thoroughly inbred 

 in the stock. . . . That which was inculcated 

 by practice passes into a tendency, and descends 

 as a natural gift or endowment. ... A race of 

 slaves becomes a physiologically servile race. 

 And so it is in part that civilization descends 

 from one generation to another. The civiliza- 

 tion is in great part inbred civility. 



*' The populating power of any race or stock 

 is increased according to the degree of personal 

 and religious character to which it has attained. 

 Good principles and habits, intellectual culture, 

 domestic virtue, industry, order, law, faith — all 

 these go immediately to enhance the rate and 

 capacity of population. They make a race pow- 

 erful, not in the mere military sense, but in one 

 that, by century-long reaches of populating 

 force, lives down silently any mere martial com- 

 petitor. Any people that Is physiologically ad- 

 vanced in culture, though it be only in a degree, 

 beyond another which Is mingled with it on 

 strictly equal terms Is sure to live down and 

 finally to live out its Inferior. Nothing can save 

 the inferior race but a ready and pliant assimi- 



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