The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-11
By JAMES D'w. CUTTING.
THAT is the effect OF prosperity
~ or adversely on the human

community? Do these on
posite conditions affecting
mems lives radically or inherently al
ter their characteristics? How Is IL
with nations? Are they affected differ
entity by their environment and their
external circumstances than are the
units constituting their general body .
And again. how do We find that the
greater divisions into which mankind
Is subdivided. the so-Called races of
men are motivated and react under
tne nun OF prosperity or the pref
JUDICIAL results Of misfortune?
To discuss properly SO wide reach
fns a subject. involving so vast a field
and such varied condit.o.s, would
necessitate of course a hroad study
OF historical record as well as a con-
siderable analysis and discussion NJ
personal observation. For my burmese
to-day ! will not atte,nnt 10 involve
myself in the details and complexities
OF proving the argument, / am abou, to
suggest, but | will content myself for
the tint being merely To indicate in
the briefest form my contention as
simply as ! can along the most els-
mentary lines. am perhaps assum-
ing too much in supposlng thai, my
hare assertions will satisfy without
absolute and comprehensive demon
stra'ion but | will. nevertheless. ven-
ture on, trusting that II | am not on
v'ncing ! may at least awaken an in
terest in my subject ana an incentive
fr further discussion.
The postulate with which I start ac-
cepts as fundamental the inequality
81 the human races and considers ms
prominent among them all the Ar
yans-the race divine.
Before. however. %'crNpti 70 en-
large on the immense superiority ~
the .Nryan race wish briefly To on
pose tho ttcrry If persl.tcnco -. race
characteristics. which Is in no WAY
contributed Icy the destruction of ino
great nations of antiquity. For these
nations were o~verIhrown ana in some
cases obl!tera;ed 10y rcas II of inter-
mixture and dilution of their blood
eventually completely cytirpating their
elements Of superiority, not through
the medium Of exterior conditions.
which could only have contributed hut
not In themselves have produced such
results. | then wish to call attention
IN the great Aryans in their world
conquest and triumph and their i'm
measurable advantage over the lcs7
@''"d populations, with n VIC" Of
showing the consthHct Of success "'
me superior race under II II all
conditions
From all this exposition ! shall
'ten attempt TO draw the conclusion
,"at the individual is controlled lot by
MS environment or his immediate ex-
perence but by inherent vitality and
separation. In order. therefore, more
'asIIy TO reach this conclusion ! shall
deal without particular distinctions
wan nations as with individuals, avail
ing myself Of the greater facility for
deduction that history offers with N'
vast records distributed over "A great
eSpanse OF time with regard to the col.
I'cuVe body' as against inc lack ~
properly recorded experience concern
ing the individual
In the general DIVISION or man into
races along the readily conprehehdeo
lines usually adopted nothing STANDS
ont strikinsly than tnefr ihhereht
character1stics which' under the mos'
vaned conditions or locaity or ciiiht,e'
curing all umes' whether sun III ,ne
documentary state OK parparisih OF ue-
Veloped into the civilized ommuhi''e
such a. our modern states present
seem u repeat themselves 10 an aston
'sh'ng degree. no that the various ma
ions descended from tho Same rae
,houxh distributed under ent'rely a,t-
.srsnt circums.ences. SUI. l' n..a,na,