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Nor can the low types of mentality possessed by 

 the most intelligent brutes below man supply these 

 equivalents, for they are inadequate to anything 

 higher than to aid the traits mentioned in the fifth 

 paragraph above, in securing the largest attainable 

 share of the supplies and opportunities provided by 

 unaided nature; and while the intelligence of persons 

 of the false type is equal to higher things, their char- 

 acter is not. Forceful, cunning egoism is well 

 fitted for the appropriation of the increased supplies 

 and opportunities added to those of unaided nature 

 by the activities of the true race type, but it cannot 

 produce them. 



General welfare, moral obligation, are notions far 

 too abstract for brutes, but comprehensible to the 

 lowliest normal human adult intelligence of this day. 

 To expend efforts in the present for something to be 

 achieved in the far future, which for the present can 

 only exist in the imagination, when these matters 

 are not covered by a developed instinct, is obviously 

 beyond the power of sub-human brutes, and while 

 easily in the power of persons of the false human 

 race character, it is not their disposition. Consid- 

 erations of general welfare or moral obligation do 

 not appeal to them and cannot control them. 



Nor is there the least reason to believe that the 

 intelligence of sub-human mammalia in any far 

 distant future could ever grow up to these higher 

 things. They have never had primitive man's 

 urgent need for higher intelligence, for they are 



