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must be judged by itself. The world would have 

 halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests 

 in alien lands; but the victories of Moslem over 

 Christian have always proved a curse in the end. 

 Nothing but sheer evil has come from the victories 

 of Turk and Tartar. This is true generally of the 

 victories of barbarians of low racial characteristics 

 over gentler, more moral, and more refined peoples, 

 even though these people have, to their shame and 

 discredit, lost the vigorous fighting virtues. Yet it 

 remains no less true that the world would probably 

 have gone forward very little, indeed would prob 

 ably not have gone forward at all, had it not been 

 for the displacement or submersion of savage and 

 barbaric peoples as a consequence of the armed set 

 tlement in strange lands of the races who hold in 

 their hands the fate of the years. Every such sub 

 mersion or displacement of an inferior race, every 

 such armed settlement or 1 conquest by a superior 

 race, means the infliction and suffering of hideous 

 woe and misery. It is a sad and dreadful thing that 

 there should of necessity be such throes of agony; 

 and yet they are the birth-pangs of a new and vigor 

 ous people. That they are in truth birth-pangs does 

 not lessen the grim and hopeless woe of the race 

 supplanted ; of the race outworn or overthrown. The 

 wrongs done and suffered can not be blinked. Nei 

 ther can they be allowed to hide the results to 

 mankind of what has been achieved. 



It is not possible to justify the backwoodsmen by 

 appeal to principles which we would accept as bind- 

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