The Blood of the Nation 



man. In like fashion the race traits 

 color all history made by Tartars, or 

 negroes, or Malays. 



The climate which surrounds a tribe 

 of men may affect the activities of these 

 men as individuals or as an aggregate, 

 education may intensify their powers or 

 mellow their prejudices, oppression may 

 make them servile or dominion make 

 them overbearing ; but these traits and 

 their resultants, so far as science knows, 

 do not " run in the blood," they are 

 not "bred in the bone." Older than 

 climate or training or experience are the 

 traits of heredity, and in the long run 

 it is always " blood which tells." 



On the other hand, the deeds of a 

 race of men must in turn determine its 

 blood. Could we with full knowledge 

 sum up the events of the past history 

 of any body of men, we could indicate 

 the kinds of men destroyed in these 

 events. The others would be left to 

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