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abuse of their bodies, and consequent destruction of their 

 physical power to sustain the heavy demands for sustenance 

 made by the mind upon the body to support the extra strain 

 resulting from the mental friction necessary to combat extra 

 difficulties in a higher and consequently more strenuous social 

 condition of life. These faults could most probably only be 

 removed by several generations of intermarriage with those 

 whose lives in a humble social sphere had evolved the physical 

 development required to produce the necessary stamina to bring 

 to full perfection the knowledge and experiences acquired by 

 previous generations of ancestors, whose lives had been spent 

 amidst higher mental environments. Also the higher mental 

 exertions of such ancestors demanded mental rest for three 

 or four generations, which their relapse into a lower order 

 of social environment alone could afford. This is probably 

 one of the reasons why the failures of good society fall to the 

 bottom and produce the height of degradation, and the 

 successes of the poorer classes so often are the geniuses who 

 most adorn its apex. 



This is why six generations of laziness bring upon a family 

 the loss of the vital powers of the recreation of their minds, 

 brains and souls in their offspring, hence the reason that in 

 past evolutions the acquirement of too great an amount of 

 ease and luxury has invariably degenerated, and often exter- 

 minated whole families and nations. But as woman produces 

 the body, not the mind, in her offspring, the women do not lose 

 their energy, only the men ; but should women become immoral 

 they lose their powers of bequeathing to their children healthy 

 bodies as surely as men lose the power of transmitting mental 

 vitality when they become lazy. These are the main causes 

 of the deterioration of all degenerate races, and the superior 

 races have been the outcome of hardier combat and struggle 

 against severity of climate and adverse circumstances of exist- 

 ence whose migration has increased their brain power. 



Aryan Races have migrated more and have had to 

 fight harder than any others against the approximately two 

 hundred and fifty thousand years of the Glacial Period, and 

 have made themselves vitally the strongest race in the world. 

 These are the races to which all decayed nations in the majority 

 of cases owe their resurrections, which are brought about by 

 their being conquered by races of superior physical develop- 



