1898] Indictment of the War System 



In more recent years, amplifying this text, I "The 

 have made it the basis of an insistent indictment of 

 the War System. For I was able to collect much 

 evidence that "the man who is left" in the vicis- 

 situdes of history stamps his qualities on the future 

 of the race, and that the only source of racial de- 

 generation lies in reversed selection, the weeding out 

 of the best. On this topic and its implications I 

 gave numerous lectures in America, Europe, and 

 Japan. 



In 1902 I wrote out the substance of one of these 

 addresses, which was published by the Beacon 

 Press in Boston as "The Blood of the Nation." 

 In 1906 I prepared a more lengthy review of the 

 same subject for the American Philosophical Society 

 at Philadelphia under the title, "The Human "The 

 Harvest," l suggested by Professor John R. Seeley's 

 statement that during the period of the Antonines 

 in Rome "the human harvest was bad." By this 

 he meant that though there were males enough in 

 Rome, which was filling up like an overflowing marsh, 

 "vir had given place to homo" and "the Empire 

 perished for want of men." In 1915 a still more 

 extended treatise on the same subject, in which I 

 gathered together all material then available, was 

 published by the Beacon Press under the title, "War and 

 "War and the Breed." 2 the Breed " 



1 Considerably expanded and published in 1907 in book form with the same 

 title, and dedicated to the memory of my brother. See Chapter I, page 9. 



2 Some of these books were soon printed in other languages: 



"La Guerre et la Virilite" and "La Moisson bumaine" translations into 

 French by Jacques Dumas of "War and Manhood" and "The Human Harvest," 

 published in Paris a copy of "La Moisson humaine" having been given to 

 each (then) member of the French Senate by D'Estournelles de Constant, who, 

 like Dumas, will appear in subsequent pages; 



"La Cosecha bumana" translation into Spanish by Dr. Aurelio M. Espinosa 



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