i6o PHYSICAL BASIS OF CIVILIZATION 



leaving the occurrence of specimens of the false type 

 a rare sporadic phenomenon. Since almost the 

 opposite is the fact, therefore it is certain beyond 

 doubt that the natural course of events has been 

 interfered with. 



The nature of this interference, consisting of the 

 turning of the destructive egoistic proclivities of the 

 false type against the harmless and useful members 

 of our own race, has been sufficiently illustrated in 

 earlier paragraphs, and is corroborated by the exist- 

 ence of many familiar archeological and historical 

 evidences. This conclusion is therefore established 

 beyond reasonable doubt. 



Can any one be so blinded by prejudice as to con- 

 tradict the statement that this mode of interference 

 continues in this present age ? That such a state 

 of affairs increases the survival chances of persons 

 of the false and decreases those of people of the true 

 type of human character, and that it hinders and 

 retards the attainment of those peaceful, happy 

 conditions for which the true race characteristics 

 prepared humanity, is self-evident. 



Here is a mass of indisputable facts constituting 

 an adequate cause for the astounding discrepancy 

 between real and rationally inferred conditions. 

 This way of accounting for it conforms to the rule 

 of parsimony, to the true nature of all the factors 

 in the problems, and is not in conflict with any fact or 

 established principle of either ordinary experience, 

 rational thought, or science. 



