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its fitness in this way, prove its unfitness in 

 another by being less capable of surviving in a 

 warm climate than they ; so that an Aryan 

 language may be spoken, where there remains 

 little or no Aryan blood. 1 Are we entitled to 

 maintain, with regard to human races and 

 human individuals, that the fittest always sur- 

 vive, except in the sense in which the propo si- 

 tion is the truism, that those surviv e who are 

 mo st capable of surviving " ? 



Further, we must emphasize the fact that the ' 

 struggle goes on n ot merely between individu al 

 a nd individual , but between race an d ra ce. 

 The struggle among plants and the lower 

 animals is mainlv between members of the 

 same species ; and the individual competition 

 between human beings, which is so much 

 admired by Mr. _ Herbert Spencer, is of t his 

 primitive kind. When we come to the strug-ode 

 between kinds, it is to be noticed that it is 

 fiercest between allied kinds ; and so, as has 

 been pointed out, the economic strueele be- 

 tween Great Britajn_and the United' States is 

 fiercer than elsewhere between nations. But, 



1 See Art. by Prof. Rhys on " Race Theories and Euro- 

 pean Politics," in New Princeton Review, Jan., iSSS. 





