iS2 PHYSICAL BASIS OF CIVILIZATION 



When, by the activity of these traits the complete 

 subjugation of man's brute enemies and competitors 

 had been accomplished, then by the same means the 

 opportunities for the exercise of these traits had 

 been greatly reduced. These faculties, however, 

 remained potentially in full force. And in accord- 

 ance with a well-established psychological law, they 

 craved action all the more because of their recent 

 strenuous activity. 



If in denial of this it is assumed that fiercely com- 

 bative primitive men might have employed them- 

 selves in peaceful, life-sustaining activities, then let 

 it be remembered that the labors by which nature 

 is subdued to the uses and welfare of man demand 

 thoughtfulness, patience, self-abnegation, persever- 

 ance, etc., the traits of the true race character, and 

 not those naturally selected and engendered by fierce 

 fighting, and by a mode of existence which alternates 

 periods of idleness and indulgence with brief terms 

 of great hardships and desperate combative efforts. 



No! the false type of human character, unless 

 alloyed by the true, never has taken and probably 

 never will take, voluntarily to those patient, peace- 

 ful, thoughtful ways which the true race type dis- 

 plays in those beneficent activities which make the 

 earth habitable and beautiful for moral beings. 

 The craving above mentioned of persons of the false 

 type for fierce and destructive activities therefore 

 in that early period could only be gratified by exer- 

 cise within their own race. 



