Publisher's Synopsis
American inventor, author and scholar Seth K. Humphrey turned his mind to the only real reason behind the rise and fall of civilization: race. An unashamed Anglophile, Humphrey's racial analysis, his call for eugenics and racial betterment ring as true now as when first penned.
"Dissipation of the better racial values and multiplication of the poorer have played a continuous part at tumbling race, state, and civilization into a dusty heap with periodic certainty..."
"A race with inborn qualities for progress chooses its climate just as it chooses its fields and woods and harbors; these things do not develop accidental humans into a dominant race. The best of natural conditions failed to make anything of the American Indian or the Australian aborigine. The White man finds himself in possession of the best of the earth because of his capacity for choosing well; the best of the earth did not make him a White man..."
"It is safe to assert that families which average less than three children brought to maturity are in process of dying out."
Contains the complete and original text in a completely reformatted edition.
INGRAMCOMPLETE192
Contents
Introductory
I. A Panoramic View
II. Principles of Inheritance
III. The Race's Heritage
IV. Birth-Rate and Race Values
V. Racial Slackers
VI. The Fertility of the Unwanted
VII. The Road to Decline
VIII. Human Values in Reserve
IX. Exhaustion of Reserves
X. The Dominant White
XI. Our Racial Poverty
XII. Effects of the War
XIII. France, England, Russia
XIV. Germany, the Isolated
XV. America: the Melting-Pot
XVI. America: the Negro-White
XVII. America: the Labor Immigrant
XVIII. Which People Shall Dominate?
XIX. Eugenic Misconceptions
XX. Into the Future
