DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

 Muscle and Brain versus Political Organisation. 



IN the history of the world, nations have arisen from 

 comparative obscurity, have occupied positions of 

 eminence and power, and have then sunk into 

 obscurity again. The Egyptians, who built their 

 pyramids and temples by the hands of the peoples 

 they had conquered in war and enslaved, were them- 

 selves conquered by Greeks; and these conquerors, 

 at first ignorant and savage, developed on the bases 

 of Eastern and Egyptian civilisation to a point never 

 before reached. But the Greeks in their turn were 

 replaced by the younger Latin race, who were also 

 at first less civilised than the nations they conquered. 



