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the slower Teutonic races. These Latin races have 

 to-day lost none of their intelligence, none of their 

 quickness or keenness, and none of their mental 

 power; but they have lost their control of the des- 

 tinies of Europe, which have been assumed by races 

 in which the intelligence certainly has not, in the 

 past, been upon an equality with that of the Latin 

 races. 



All of these facts show clearly enough that we 

 must look for something besides intelligence if we 

 are to find the adhesive power that holds people 

 together and makes the victorious nation. In fact, 

 too much education has a tendency toward disinte- 

 gration rather than organization. With high grades 

 of intelligence, each individual is apt to come to 

 place his own interests too highly, lose his willing- 

 ness to sacrifice his own pleasures or his own rights 

 for the advantage of others, and especially for the 

 advantage of his nation. Among the highly intelli- 

 gent there is frequently a diminution of that feeling 

 of patriotism, of love for the king or a country that 

 is needed to make a strong nation. The intellectual 

 classes are not the quickest to recruit the armies. 

 Clearly enough, then, we must conclude that the 

 force that makes the nation and holds organizations 

 together is not intelligence. Again we are forced to 

 ask, "What is this force 1 



We must now notice again that impulses to action 

 are twofold. Sometimes, indeed, we speak of man as 

 a combination of two distinct beings. The first is the 

 being of habit, of routine, or of instinct. Many of 

 our actions are controlled largely by a class of im- 

 pulses which we speak of as instinctive. Some of 

 these actions are inherited, like the sucking of the 



