AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



inevitability of war and the desirability 

 of it sees the situation as reducible to 

 rather simple terms. If man prefers to 

 be ruled in his relation to fighting and 

 war by his biological inheritance with 

 its vestigial carry-overs from prehuman 

 and prehistoric human days, and does 

 not care to oppose to it his power of 

 conscious development and magnification 

 of his social inheritance to the end of 

 making it victor over his brute heredity 

 something that he has successfully done 

 in relation to many other things then 

 war will persist. If he decides, as the 

 Germans seemed to, that the best way 

 to develop the highest type of man and 

 human culture is to depend solely on 

 the natural selection based on a ruth- 

 less physical life-or-death determining 

 struggle for existence, with a survival and 

 dominance of the physically strongest, 

 then war is desirable. 



But if he recognizes that he must take 

 into account in his study of human 

 development another evolution factor, not 

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