22 National Life 



themselves, and even then the struggle for 

 existence between individual and individual, 

 between tribe and tribe, may not be sup- 

 ported by that physical selection due to a 

 particular climate on which probably so much 

 of the Aryan's success depended. 



If you bring the white man into contact 

 with the black, you too often suspend the 

 very process of natural selection on which 

 the evolution of a higher type depends. You 

 get superior and inferior races living on the 

 same soil, and that coexistence is demoraliz- 

 ing for both. They naturally sink into the 

 position of master and servant, if not ad- 

 mittedly or covertly into that of slave-owner 

 and slave. Frequently they intercross, and 

 if the bad stock be raised the good is lowered. 

 Even in the case of Eurasians, of whom I 

 have met mentally and physically fine speci- 

 mens, I have felt how much better they would 

 have been had they been pure Asiatics or pure 

 Europeans. Thus it comes about that when 

 the struggle for existence between races is 

 suspended, the solution of great problems 

 may be unnaturally postponed ; instead of the 

 slow, stern processes of evolution, cataclysmal 



