The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06
A DOMINANT RACE

| The power of 'heredity'' may have been
overrated by some biologists, but that it
| is real and potent principle no thought
full student of human history can afford
TO deny Few things in this world of
change are so permanent and persistent
as are race characteristics. This view is
very powerfully set forth by Buckle, in
his remarkable book, the History of
Civilization in England" and since his
time it has been elaborated by long Sc
ries Of writer's upon biological and eth
biological science.
The south was largely settled by En-
glish Cavaliers, and New England by En-
glish Puritans. The Cavaliers were dis
| tinguished for their admiration and defer
| ence for women, while the Puritans re-
| garded such Difference as weakness.
| And now you may see in any New Eng
| land city a street car filled with strong
men, not one of whom will move, if wo-
man with a baby on her left arm and a
heavy basket on her right, enters that
| car. Scarcely any decent southerner
would keep his seat under such crcum-
stances. Race characteristics explain this
remarkable phenomenon.
julius Caesars observations on the
people of Gaul shoA that he found them
| tickle, unsettled changeabe. In the lat
ter part of the third century before
| Christ, colony of the Gauls conquered
and settled a province of Asia Minor to
which province they gave the name OF
Galatia. The Apostle Paul visited this
region, preached to the people and estab-
lished churches among them; and MS
| Epistle to the Galatians describes these
| people in almost the same terms which
Julius Caesar uses in his famous Com
mentaries on the Gallo War" Through
centuries of vicissitudes the race charac-
teristics persstently held their own.
Julius Caesar, and Tacitus after him.
were surprised and greatly impressed by
| the characteristics of our old Teutonic
ancestors In the wild forests of ancient
| Germany. Neither of these writers had
ever seen such a people. True, they ate
and drank too much, often spending whole
days in feasting and drinking in their
houses. but their determined courage,
| their independence, their capacity for self
| government and their dominant will
power were strange and striking charac-
teristics of those wild 'barbarians"
| From these people came the Saxons,
who conquered and settled England The
| Normans, under William the Conqueror,
overwhelmed them in war, took possess
sion of their lands, ruled them with rod
of iron, oppressed and outraged them in
| the most cruel ways; but the race charac-
teristcs of the Saxon binds" finally con-
quered the conuuerors, and England OBJ
stinately refused to become French, in
| language or in manners.
The result Is that we Americans of to-
day are speaking and writing what is es-
| sentially a Teutonc language, and are
| living under a government whose funda-
| mental principles were born in the wild
| woods of Germany. The very Preamble
of the constitution of the United States
shows marked traces of the ancient Teu-
tonic feeling. To establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility, provided for the
| common defence, promote the general welA
fare and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and to our posterity, were all
eminently Teutonic motives.
| An enormously large proportion of the
surface of this earth is now owned and
controlled by this persistent race. Nor
does current history give any sign that
their power is decaying. They are largely
the educators of the world. Does any
body expect them to yield their power up
to an alien and inferior race, or to SUBJ
nit quietly to ''miscegenation, and thus
commit race suicide? Fanatics may rave
and howl, and humantarans may preach
and exhort, but history will not bulge.
| Fighting an avalanche is not wise: it is
better TO clear the track.