PERVERSION OF RACE CHARACTER 149 



Possessed of immense muscular power, great 

 agility, cunning, courage, combativeness, reckless 

 disregard of wounds and of the danger of meeting 

 death, and equal indifference for the blandishments 

 of self-indulgence, glory, or reward; endowed 

 with deep sympathy for the feeble and helpless of 

 its own race — this type was pre-eminently fitted 

 for the severest tests of bravery, skill, and endurance. 



In this form of heroism the destructive powers 

 are controlled and directed by the beneficent ten- 

 dencies of the true race character, and therefore 

 only available against the inanimate environment 

 and the brute enemies of mankind. Aggressive 

 warfare directed against the useful and inoffensive 

 of our own race, instigated by the motives which, 

 no matter how disguised, have originated nearly 

 all modern wars, viz., greed or lust of power or 

 riches was obviously impossible with such men. 

 Such characters would prove a help, and could never 

 be a hindrance, to the attainment of humanity's 

 highest ideals. 



both parents," that the chances for the births of female infants, 

 inheriting in proper proportions the dispositions of both their 

 fierce male and gentle female ancestors, are equal to those of 

 the births of male infants combining in due proportion the char- 

 acteristics of their gentle female with those of their fierce male 

 progenitors. Both belong to the heroic type. No partiality 

 was intended in the text above by mentioning only one side 

 of the proposition. The other side, being irrelevant to the 

 argument, was left out. 



When, by sexual reproduction, a ferociously, cruelly egoistic 

 disposition is mixed with a just, patient, self-abnegating one, 

 then it is obvious that, irrespective of sex, the proportions in 

 which each of these two dispositions may occur in the character 

 of new individuals, are of infinitely great variability. 



