The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-10
civilian A. Mckeever. Prof. Of
Philosophy. Kansas State Agricultural

Philosophy. Kansas State Agricultural
C%ollege.)
The London school Of eugenists.
"biometricians." are proceeding chief
~ under the role of Psychologists and
observation-disclosures are out in the field
searching for degenerates in the form
of sick bodies and degenerate minds,
success in finding what they are look
ing for. They are out with the as
sumption that mankind is sharply di-
vided up into stocks-that there are a
very few OF the better stocks and a
very large number of the worse or
weaker stocks. They go among the
families of Oxford graduates and 9TH
ers who have been favored with full
physical and mental nurture as we'll az
with the powerful stimulus of hope
and expectancy, and take some meas
urements. These mathematical u
genics then lay their yard stick upon
the members of the p%easantry. men
and who have been bruised
and beaten and half starved through
the workings of an iniquisitous caste
system fastened upon their ancestry
generations & by the bloody hand Of
conquest: and 10! the children of the
ones to breed from. They make a
$"'A III ~ W
with the others.
What is the general nature of the
human race today? Is it one or
many? Is it made up of distinctive,
separate strains and "stocks.' destined
to remain permanently segregated into
castles n factions. which must for
ever be at war with the other. Or is
our common human nature wherever
found on the earth essentially a unit
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a beautiful social democracy? This is
the most momentous question Of the
ages. a Very pressing problem alike for
all who are either directly or indirect
ly interested in the life of man or the
earth. ! contend with all my might
for h latter position. The historian.
the pal%eontologist, the biologist. the
natural scientist and the psychologist
are all contributing a mass of evidence
to support the theory that there is
only one humankind the world over
that h various so-called races of
man have had a common origin. and
are inherently shaped for a common
destiny: that the great age-iong in
stinctive qualities upon which our best
civilization is built are found alike and
in abundance in every tribe and nation
under h sun: that the great central
stream of humanity everywhere found
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ties necessary for development. under
favorah bile conditions. INTO sound and
substantial manhood and womanhood:
that humankind everywhere is appar-
emily on the way to a common higher
physical and mental being likewise the
interest of all.
The greatest to the estab-
lishment of a mighty spiritual democ-
racy among the men of all nations is
thA prnfAcein,o1 ,,,;1;$o s,,c~, .LzA IT,
slowly grown into a monster of i'm
pending power and destructiveness.
Thrones and palaces Of the older sort
are lettering. monarchies are crumh-
ling before the onward march Of the
enlightened masses. but much of the
same old selfishness and lust for pow
er is now lurking behind the froUn-
ing breastworks of an aristocratic
militarism and that under the pre-
tense of patriotism.
So the student of eugenics is halt
ed here at the outposts of the great
armies and navies of the world. The
war problem nus be settled before
We will be able to make n very sub
stantial advance. If the militarist be
right. then human life is a cheap and
a bloody pieces of anisamilsm. and
the nations must keep on cutting one
another to pieces for the sake Of mere
W ute eIilltN- II lIle IlllltdTN dTlS-
tocracy be right, then man must eve
continue in chains of bondage to his
fellow man and the task of the Gu
genist is merely that of determining
how to breed better fighting qualities
in men.
Mark YOU, / do not stop with the
most damaging charge that the enor-
nous expense of militarism is sapping
the life blood out of the nations Of the
earth. although his fact is already
clear to all thinking minds. I add
the most serious charge that militar-
ism as organized at present is a hard
and bruitish aristorcrary--that it is
built on the principle that man is pre-
dominantly fierce and selfish: that the
goods of the world are material goods;
that only a few. the greatest in war.
can expect to obtain possession of
these goods: hat the great mass Of
men are unfit for self-direction and
must act only in mute submissiveness
to the stern and supercilious command
of a superior; that mans social SYM
pathy and his spiritual nature are
mere playthings to be made use of
only in times of peace.
But there are those anon us who
see a divine spark of life in all races
and individuals among men. We see a
great cosmic brotherhood slowly
emerging. We behold a great throng
of the common people arising to as
sumo the reins of their own govern