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race, and enjoying the same freedom and opportunity. 



The superior form of the matter making up the 

 organism of the white race, and inherited from genera- 

 tion to generation, must have come originally as a 

 variation from such structure in his ancestors, by 

 reason of the peculiar incidence of natural forces in 

 his immediate environment, very likely by the superior 

 sustentation, as Weissman believes, of the procreative 

 cell. We infer, therefore, that the white race's superi- 

 ority to the black race is the result of the natural 

 selection of more numerous and important variations 

 of neural structure, occurring in that race, brought 

 about probably by a more highly complex form of sus- 

 tentation and effort. 



"The superior development of Aryans and Semites 

 is perhaps attributable to the copious meat and milk 

 diet of both races ; more especially to the favorable in- 

 fluence of such food on the growth of children." 

 (Engels.) This refers to the period of the lower stages 

 of barbarism, in the evolution of these two races, when 

 they began the taking of animals for domestic use. 

 "Our conclusion is, that variation progressive, or re- 

 gressive, and also mutation, in fact, any inherited 

 modification of the race, is instituted by stimulus of the 

 environment." (Montgomery). An environment re- 

 mote as well as near. Though Darwin held that varia- 

 tions were the results of "inherent tendency," more 

 than environment. But, it is likely that this "inherent 

 tendency" originally arose from superior sustentation 

 of those showing it. 



"It is at least supposable that the Aryan and Semitic 

 families owe their pre-eminent endowments to the great 

 scale upon which, as far back as our knowledge ex- 

 tends, they have identified themselves with the main- 



