ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



European nations because she is not only hardy and 

 prolific, but she als o has the gift of em pire: she 

 huildg ^upon law and order; she establishes justice 

 and fair play. 



In the Darwinian sense the Jews are the fittest to 

 survive of all the races of man. They are prolific and 

 grasping; they will always get what belongs to 

 them, and a little more; they are bound to possess 

 the earth. The only drawback I see is that they do 

 not take kindly to the soil. Trade alone will not give 

 a nation the supremacy. 



XI. THE POWER OF CHOICE 



Think how we come into the world, what an impor- 

 tant thing it is to each of us and to the world, and 

 yet how fortuitous and haphazard it all is, and what 

 precautions are often taken to prevent our coming ! 



See the deformed, the half-witted, the low- 

 browed, the degenerate, that come. The great army 

 of the common, the few capable of higher and finer 

 things. Nature apparently finds her account in one 

 class the same as in the other, in Pat as well as in 

 Paul, in the inferior races as well as in the higher. 



In our manufacturing affairs we aim to turn out 

 the best article possible — the best shoe, the best 

 hat, the best gun, the best book; but Nature makes 

 no such effort in the case of man, though she does in 

 the case of the lower orders. Probably every indi- 

 vidual bird or bug or four-footed beast in a state of 



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