New-York tribune., 1869-01-05

been the historic bane of the world, with con-
venient sophistry, but we consent that here
after .as heretofore, the genius Of clNlII@-
tibn shall march, with feet dabbled Ill
blood, above PROSTATE peoples. We reserve no
international comity-we recognize no law but
tho law of the strongcr--wc adhere to no equi-
ties but the equities of the huDtlng-held, ara
we east aside forever those safeguards OF pun
lie peace which, within limits all COO marrow,
the unity of the race has thus far Afforded.
We yield to mere intellectual superiority an
irresponsibity to any law which the con-
science Of mankind has yet discovered and es-
tabIished and we surrender the world, with all
its necessities and with all its hopes, to the
will Of what in its best estate must he no
more than an Oyer-g grown oligarchy, and IN ITS
worst hardly so tolerable as our fate would be,
if by some fulfillments of the dreams of theo-
logians, the Deity whom we worship and
the Devil whom we dread should suddenly
and mysterously change places. Nor Is
this all. The doctrine of human bestiality, IL
for the sake of convenience VIC may use the
phrase, the offspring, perhaps, of all excessive
and debilitating social and intellectual refine
ment, must, in the nature of things, return to
plague us; for it not merely dooms immense
portions of the earth's surface TO the occupancy
Of anomalous savages, but it originates indl-
vidua distinctions in the most civilized COM
munties, and thus leaves society either at the
mercy Of an unscrupulous sagacty, or of mere
numbers of creatures always largely in the
majority, and guided by the coarsest physical
instincts. In such q state OF the population, 1t
is easy to see that the very refinement upon
which tho superiority o. the few is predicatcd
must gradually disappear We are not at lib
erty to assume the determination of immense
numbers of those who, whatever their status,
certainly exist by the providence Of Nature.
There will, therefore, be nothing left for us
but a constant social war between differing
social elements and the inevitable result of
such contest is far less likely to be the ex-
tirpation of the many than the barbarization of
the few Something like an ante-ype of this
consummation may be found in the later his
tory of Rome and in the more recent history
of Asiatic nations. In such n conflict, which,
if certain modern theories are adopted, is
inevitable, the superior races must fast degen
crate, until the most ingenious speculator will
he unable to draw even the thinnest distlnc-
tions between the victims and the victorious.
The intelligent reader will readily perceive
that when n theory bestializing by much the
larger moiety of those called men has been
admitted, the door has been opened for endless
refinement, and that the fortunes of our kind, Of
whatever branch, would be left very much at
the mercy of dreamcrs, If the destiny of the
human race were not infinitely stronger than
the slrewdcst conclusions of the over-wise and
the inordnatey speculative. The higher place
which woman is already occupying must be
abandoned, and her gradual emancipation must
come TO sudden termination, if the power of
man, which has heretofore degraded her. must
he referred to superior nature, as it certainly
must, il tho relative position of the sexes in
the past is to be taken as the evidence OF n
fixed natural law. The doctrine which we have
been contloyerting leaves us if trne, all at sea
without compass. Fortunately it is rs far aS
possible from being trlc,