8 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



would not tolerate a novel form of government, we 

 have a pure race isolated for centuries, who to-day 

 have the same characters as their Norse forefathers, 

 and who have developed and are developing as far as 

 their narrow limits will permit. 



In even a more striking manner the Jewish race 

 illustrates the same point. Always of striking 

 capacity, they suffered national extinction at the 

 hands of an enemy who had, so to speak, specialised 

 in the ways of warfare. So far from this national 

 extinction indicating any race enfeeblement, we 

 have clear proof to the contrary, for to the present 

 day the Jews are more than fairly represented 

 amongst artists, musicians, scientists and men of 

 affairs ; and in our own mercantile community, 

 with the disadvantage of having two holidays in the 

 week against the Gentile's one, the Jew more than 

 holds his own in the race for wealth. 



Possible Racial Degeneration in Spain. 



We are not, however, bound to assume from these 

 two examples that, bar political catastrophe, a race 

 will always progress, or even continue to possess 

 its original characteristics. 



In the case of Spain, a country which at one 

 period of history took a distinct lead amongst Euro- 



