HACKS AND l'Kol'1,1.- 



We must rememb' none of the great civilization* 



<>f tiie world was the product of the genius of a single 

 people." In ancient times, . mli/ation was shifting over 

 a rat In- r limited area and was transferred from con- 

 queror to conquered, or vice versa. Ideas anl inventions 

 wen* i from one to another and each people par- 



tied in this rarly development and contribute! iN 

 share to the general progress. In tin- process of bor- 

 rowing ami development, the fact that iropean race 

 happ. -n. -.1 to di-tance all others is merely a matter of a 

 few thousand years, ami in tin- va-t hi-tory of man this 

 18 a short p. -riod. We in ! the highly 

 specialized Magdal.-nian culture is not less than t\\ 

 thousand years old, and yet thn is no reason to believe 

 that this stage wa> d by mankiml the world 

 at the same period." Now that we know that we are 



line it seems probable that 



the life hi-tnry of a people, the Hides of its history, 



an- fully sufii.-i. nt to explain a delay of this character 



without obliging us to assume a difiV 



tude for social development.* 3 iation would 



be significant only if it could be shown that it occurs in- 



idently over and over airain in the same race, while 



ier races great lit y of development was found 



lly in inde: ! cases." 14 



the "present time, prarti.-aily all members of the 

 White race participate to a mvatep or less degree in the 

 advance of civilization. In no other race has the civili- 

 zation that has been attained at one time or an 

 reached all the tribes ,.r peoples of that race. This does 



ft /6M . pp. 6-7. 



tt||. f p. 9. 



"Wait*. T.-.4nlArt*olofM *r tflrt*lfcr. ted. cd.. vol. I. p. JSI. 



M BOM, op. Hi., p. 10. 



