26 National Life 



in civilization and in type of energy there is 

 an amalgamation of races, as when Norman 

 and Anglo-Saxon ultimately blended ; at 

 other times the inferior race is driven out 

 before the superior, as the Celt drove out the 

 Iberian. The struggle means suffering, 

 intense suffering, while it is in progress ; but 

 that struggle and that suffering have been 

 the stages by which the white man has 

 reached his present stage of development, 

 and they account for the fact that he no 

 longer lives in caves and feeds on roots and 

 nuts. This dependence of progress on the 

 survival of the fitter race, terribly black as it 

 ' may seem to some of you, gives the struggle 

 for existence its redeeming features ; it is the 

 fiery crucible out of which comes the finer 

 metal. You may hope for a time when the 

 sword shall be turned into the ploughshare, 

 when American and German and English 

 traders shall no longer compete in the markets 

 of the world for their raw material and for 

 their food supply, when the white man and 

 the dark shall share the soil between them, 

 and each till it as he lists. But, believe me, 

 when that day comes mankind will no longer 



