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MONGOL
UPREMACY IN Wd
?l:
yVryar- Must Yield to ?Slav and
Oriental as Earth's Life
Ebbs, Declares Scien?
tist? America Near
End of "National
Joy Ride."
By Dr. Robert T. Morris.
EACH nation has its joy ride, with th?
fund of protoplasm taken from th<
racial stock. When that fund has beer
expended, down goes the nation, to be fol?
lowed by another nation which has taker
charge of the protoplasmic energy.
In the United States we cannot hope to hold
out for a very long period. The racial com?
plexity, according to all tests which the his?
tory of the human race has afforded, makes
the theory of endurance untenable. The Unit?
ed States will have to fall just as other na?
tions, only more rapidly.
We will, presumably, be dominated by Slavs
and perhaps later by Oriental nations as they
drop their esoteric reasoning and develop ex
oterically Japan is a striking example of the
vital exoteric development which spells cult?
ural ascendancy.
I believe, prior to the Oriental absorption.
that there will be a strong Anglo-Saxon move?
ment southward out of Canada, which will
meet a strong upward Teutonic movement
from South America. The meeting ground,
hypothetically speaking, of course, will be in
the vicinity of Mexico. There a bitter conflict
will be waged, which in all probability will
take the form of a concrete war. When these
contending races have exhausted each other
the Slavs may be looked upon to step in and
walk oft with the spoils.
AS SHOWN IN HISTORY.
Almost all of the still remaining Aryan na?
tions belonging to that stock which moved
out of the mountains of India and swept north?
ward, then westward, now have a falling birth
rate We assume that the fund of Aryan pro?
toplasmic energy is running low. The strong?
er Aryan nations will take turns at dominat
:7ig the weaker ones for a few centuries, and
then the Aryans will naturally be followed by
natiors of some other stock.
Oriental nations may occupy ruling posi?
tons over the earth in their turn for a million
cars or so. They are being kept in check at
rreient by their esoteric philosophy. When
<ve.- a nation drops its esoteric philosophy and
begins to develop exoterically, like little Japan,
?a have an object lesson bearing upon what
: ay be anticipated from some of the very
arge and strong Mongolian nations after
Aryar nations have taken their turn at the
? heel.
h or all the nations there are distinct rises,
RJtaraJ attainments and declines. Disappear
?rve of species is absolutely unavoidable.
:?o*r,< species, however, persist longer than
cher?. The secret of longevity is inherent in
" * ?? ecies.
la othof words, a nation represents a domi?
nant variety of man. This dominant variety
carnes a fund of protoplasmic energy bor?
rowed from the species of man (Homo sapi
f*u?. A national variety of man, like a culti?
vated variety of some other animal or plant,
expends its protoplasmic energy and disap?
pears, to be succeeded by another varietal
Croup.
Glancing for a moment above this eternal
racial flux at the naked elements which it in?
volves, we find that a slow diminution is talc?
ing place. The central stock from which all
the races of men are supplied with the life
force is neither increasing nor static. It is
growing smaller.
The world is a clock, and the clock is run?
ning down.
At least many physicists are inclined to ac?
cept the hypothesis that the world was origi?
nally wound up from an energy of force and
that the mechanism is gradually slackening.
It is only another step to assume that the
protoplasmic energy set aside for purposes of
organic life is becoming exhausted like the
other funds of energy. This means that
eventually the plant life in making fixed car?
ton compounds will use up ali the water of
the earth. Then the earth, rendered totally in?
organic and sterile, will resemble the moon.
Toward this end, basing argument upon the
theory of the physicists, our earth is tending.
And, of course, man, being a much higher
complex organic form, will be gone a long
?'?e before the microbes have disappeared.
'he microbe is the agent which kills every
toing else. The last gasp of organic matter
"ill be the gasp of the microbe.
A fact is only beginning to be glimpsed by
'"vestigators?the fact that peace and war are
dually fatal to any race.
Both pea'.e and war contain the sure in
I'edients of disintegration and death. The
<*?ath through peace is more rapid than that
through war.
How many nations are to fall through war
*r? and how many through influences of cult
?? limitation? Hundreds snd perhaps thou
*?*<!* of nations in the future will come and
** like waves upon the shores of Time.
?Till HKGINNING OP DECLINE.
Here in the United States, under the influ
**-es of pea'e, we have already begun to de
5** in advance of the time that we ambi
**"dji hoped would be set for our perihelion,
jne sexes are approaching each other in type
**m taxe it falling with great rapidity. The
?omen suffrage movement and a decline of
?}? hrai?iia, urge are parallel facts. We may
***** from this that as the sexes epproach
?**?* *het in type there is a tendency for each
???prca, its respective individuality in terms
f *e other. Mutual franchise is sought,
???enaiig tomes to n j-euae. The state falls.
Another evidence in the United States that n
cultural limitation has been or is rapidly being
reached is found in the abundance of geniuses.
The geniuses are appearing in every field of
human activity. The genius is a superman,
but the superman is one who is ending his
family lineage in a blaze of glory.
A nation struggles first for economic posi?
tion. It then blossoms in the humanities and
sciences. Then it declines.
The birth rate of any country is a water
gauge indicating what is in the boiler of that
country.
Prussia attained florescence and began the
long downhill march at the beginning of the
present century. The Kaiser recognizes this
and is trying to combat it. He has offered to
become godfather to the eighth male child of
a family. Thus he hopes to encourage pro?
creation and so retr.rd 'he decline of the race.
But this he cannot do. Human laws must
bow to natural laws. There is no way to checii
the retrogression of R race once it has actually
set in.
France attained the cultural limitation, prob?
ably, during the illustrious reign of the later
Louises. Prance is very strongly on the de?
cline as a world race. The birth rate is actu?
ally below the death rate.
England has begun dying in the centre, her
colonies retaining their virility. The process
of this operation is identical to the action of
the ringworm in its movement. Death begins
at the centre and slowly works outward in
ever widening rings. The distant colonies may
be expected to persist until they die the natural
race death.
The logical end of culture, then, is the elim
ination of the race, whether the process be
noted in plants, in animals or in man. The
Wilson strawberry and the peach-blow potato
have disappeared. The Newfoundland dog has
vanished. We tried to bring back the Morgan
horse, but without success. Ancient Greece.
Rome. Egypt and Peru reached cultural limita?
tions ar.d declined, running out of protoplasmic
energy. They never can be restored. The
extinction of our American race will follow
in direct line with these extinctions, only with
us it will be swifter, as I have said, because
of the conglomerate crossing of the species.
NATIONS THAT ENDURE LONGEST
Nations of men consisting of varietal hybrid
groups?that is. between parents of closely
allied types biologically?are prone to run a
longer and stronger course than nations in
which the people represe:-.t hybrids between
species, as in Mexico, for instance. Varietal
hybrid groups are capable of a high degree
of mass action for public welfare, but among
specific hybrid group-., on the other hand, in
dividuals of the highest degree of education
and most charming personality have a ten?
dency to expend their funds of energy indi?
vidually and wastefully in opposition to each
other.
The destructive influence of warfare, as I
have pointed out already, is less rapid than
the destructive influence of peace. Peace is
more thoroughly destructive than war because
after destructive warfare vital elements rep?
resenting the strongest masculine types are
brought together for rebuilding the injured na?
tion or for constructing a new nation.
Jesus entered voluntarily into warfare. It
was when He found the money changers in
the temple. There always will be money
changers in the temple. Wars of the future
will presumably be more terrible than any
wars of the past because of the vast aggrega?
tions of capital that will become available for
the purposes of the soldier specialist, when
he finds emotions aroused to the point at
which he is enabled to step in and hypnotize
Dr. Robert T. Morris,
Sur ti eon. Scientist and
Author Who Compares
the World to a Clock
Which Is Running
Down.
Science Supports Th?s? Statements, According to
Dr. Morris.
"The United States will have to fall justas other nations, only more
rapidly. "
a ?,.
" We will, presumably, be dominated by Slavs and perhaps later by Ori?
ental nations. "
a ? ***
" The central stock from which all the races of men are supplied with
the life fores is growing smaller. The world is a clock, and the
clock is running down. '
" Here in the United States we have already begun to decline. The wo?
man suffrage movement and a decline of the breeding urge are parallel
facts. "
?<? * ?
" Prussia began the long downhill march at the beginning of the present
century. Franc is very strongly on the decline as a world race. Eng?
land has begun dying in the centre. "
a a 4P
"Peace is more thoroughly destructive than war.Wars of the
future will presumably be more terrible than any wars of the past. "
et whole nation through suggestion of militar
ism.
Exarninig the phenomenon itself of war,
we find that it presents two salient attributes?
the ambition of the soldier class (a minority)
and the hypnosis exerted over the masses (a
majority".
Who wanted the present European war?
?England began it, but Germany started it.
The German business man did not want this
war. He already held in both hands the busi?
ness of the world, which cannot now be re?
gained in two generations, if at all. His ships
were upon the seven seas, free as the move
mcnts of the tides.
The German scientific man did not want the
war. He w.ts writm?; the name of Get man
science upon the face of the sun.
The Get man libara] piofcssional man did not
want war. He was secure in his position of
growing, (.-tine among the professions in Ger?
many.
No one wanted the war except the soldier
specialist. Ile was the one who succeeded in
persuading the taxpayers to pour out cell
enzymes beyond their power of intellectual
control. Therefore it seems clear that in the
future whenever a nation wishes to rise and
to de? ay peacefully it must exercise a high
degree of police power over its own police.
Civilized society rests upon a tripod com?
posed of laborer, priest and soldier. Each one
of the three is a specialist. The soldier spe
Georg Brandes Justifies Neutral Writers
Continued from page one.
without regard for anything except for the
safety of the empire and without the slightest
consideration for the wishes of the popula?
tions. The Germans, however, have until now
at least been victorious.
The French programme shows great regard
for many nice things, except for reality and
facts. France is going to get Alsace and Lor?
raine, Denmark gets Slesvig, Poland will be
autonomous under Russia, the Kiel Canal will
be neutral, Constantinople will be conquered
and turned into an impossible sort of common
territory belonging to the western powers and
to Russia, Turkey will be divided. Every?
thing in general the western powers do not
possess they divide. They stick to the other?
wise abandoned view that obstacles may be
overcome in life by the power of noble inten?
tions.
Clemenceau wrote: "What face will Den
mark put on when she requires Slesvig and
Holstein from our hands?" And when I an?
swered that before you can give anything away
you must possess it first he did not under
stand that what I wrote was bitter truth, but
?ailed it "delicious iiony." Irony! He did not
understand the half ?omita!, h.If outrageous
fact that he who never in his life had given
Slesvig a thought warned to teach ?orrcct be
havior to men who during hall a century never
have forgotten this tame Slesvig, whose minds
have always been occupied by this question,
who have worked for it and made a great sac?
rifice for it. He even reproached them for not
taking a manly attitude in Denmark's only
problem of foreign politics! ,
It is quite natural that people in Europe and
in America are very ignorant of circumstances
in a little country like Denmark and of the
history of that country during the last sixty
years. But it is unpardonable to forge weap?
ons out of one's ignorance, and this is just
what the foreign press has done concerning
Denmark and the Danes.
DENMARK FIGHTS FOR SLESVIG.
The Danish nation undertook fifty years ago
the heroic but mad adventure to tight for the
sake of Slesvig against the allied great powers.
Prussia and Austria. She could not think of
a future without that duchy, which since time
immemorial belonged to Denmark. As an
outcome of the war Denmark lost not only
the German inhabitants of this duchy but also
the Danish population, and she has had to
continue her life crippled. In Holste.n the
language was German, and.the great power?,
declared wat as if Denmark had had no right
to the ownership of those two duchies. When
they were conquered and Prussia lad become
their undisputed owner Bismarck let the Prus
sian crown solicitors m?|uire who was the real
owner of Holstein and Slesv.g. They an
swere.l unanimously that the King of Den
mark had until now been the only legal mai
ter of these duchies. As he had now been
?-empelled to cede them, they belonged to
Prussia by the right of conquest. This right,
I suppose, may without exaggeration be called
a secondary right. Feeling this, Prussia itself
inserted a clause in the peace treaty of Prague
with Austria in 1866 giving the inhabitants of
North Slesvig the right to decide the fate of
this territory. They could go back to Den?
mark if they by a free referendum voted for it.
But in 1879 the promise was wiped out under
the pretext that it had been given only to
Austria, not to Slesvig, and that Austria did
not insist upon its fulfilment.
Since then this population has been submit?
ted to every compulsory method that has been
used in Alsace and Posen. Anyhow, the cir?
cumstances in Slesvig cannot be compared
with those of Alsace, because Alsace was 300
years ago a German country, while North
Slesvig was Danish and remains Danish this
very day on grounds of history and sentiment.
After Prussia, having by the consent of Eu?
rope seized the Kiel Harbor and after the en?
ormous development of the German Empire,
Denmark is too weak to think of warlike
adventures; therefore at the outbreak of this
war Denmark never thought of rising against
Germany An alliance with England would
be of no use whatsoever to Denmark, because
the Baltic end the North Sei. which protect
the 1 oast of Denmark, have been since long
ago navigated by German vessels, so thst the
Germans have every route, every nook and
corner just as well as the Danish sailors have
them. The German fleet moves in the Baltic
with such facility that the ships pass our belts
without a pilot and in the night time without
lanterns. An English fleet has only once vis?
ited our sea routes: nor did they investigate
them. They never came back, whereas the
Germans studied our coaets early and late all
the year round. There was in the beginning
of the war not a single English ship in the
Baltic, and the Germans were undisputed mas?
ters there in the difficult waters round our
coast. The Germans have never during the
war been aground, while an English subma?
rine, whose commander made a wrong move,
ran on shore near Saetholmen, and as a con?
sequence of German cruelty one-half of the
crew, unable to defend themselves, were shot
down on neutral Danish territory.
Denmark has reason to believe that neither
England nor Germany has required anything
but neutrality from Denmark. The national
feeling in Denmark, which was deeply wound?
ed by the Prussian rule in Slcsvig, made sid?
ing with Germany impossible; and siding with
England, which would otherwise have seemed
natural, was made impossible, as England
showed herself perfectly incapable to defend
the coasts of Denmark against attacks from
the power whose ships roamed over our
waters and whose friendship was and is s con?
dition of life for us.
S.offrag'e and Fewer Births
Synonymous, Worse Wars
Probable, and Microbe's
Final Triumph Certain
in Culture's March to
Self-Destruction.
cialist is gvtn a high degree of education b;
the public, and he naturally wishes to justif;
his e : V.ence. Aided by this education th
?o? ' - specialist is particularly well fitted fo
tollow'ng his own head into the tent of th?
put)! c miad. In that fact he is always a men
ace to peace as well as a defender of peace.
A dominant varietal hybrid group of met
commonly includes in its nation many othei
kinds of people, differing perhaps in languag?
and rclig on or even racially. These peopl?
are all rendered more or less monochromatu
in a political way through the influence of th?
dominant group.
For example, the South Germans give th?
name "Pieussen" to cockroaches; in Prussia
cockroaches are called "Schwaben." Socialists
do not like Prussian methods. The Magyar
had no love for Prussia, nor had the Austrian
Germans who had fiown to other lands flapped
their wings joyously in freedom.
When the Puritan-like Prussian in com?
mendable basic spirit began his efficiency cru?
sade in 7(514, with the idea of buttoning up the
world neatly for school, it became necessary
to unite all of these people who called each
other cockroaches. How could Prussia ac?
complish this? By means of principles of ap?
plied psychology. Efficiency again! The psy?
chologists were set to work in a systematic
manner. Their task consisted first in bringing
about confusion of ideas. It seemed desirable
to confuse the idea of love of fatherland with
the idea of love for the military class. This
having been accomplished, the next step re?
lated to the transformation of idea into feeling.
Women were chosen for the purpose because
of their facile response when enzymes are to
be liberated freely in emotional expression.
German women everywhere were asked to ex?
change their heart-close gold rings for iron
rings at a time when there was no need for
any such sacrifice. They were asked to ex?
change their home-close copper utensils for
iron utensils at a time when Prussia had cop?
per to burn. Women followed their gold and
copper emblems of heart and of home and
carried the men right along with them?mag?
nets r>y induction! All of this had been care
fully planned in advance by the psychologists
among dominant Prussians who were exercis
ing supreme control over divers national ele?
ments in Germany.
PATRIOTISM A DANGEROUS OBSES?
SION.
It really makes very little difference who
wins in this war. All of the countries have
records of past performances which are about
equally bad and equally good. There is noth?
ing but a mean little primal spirit called pa?
triotism?the herd urge?which would lead
cosmopolitans to put aside the brotherhood-of
man idea in favor of success of any one party
of gunners
Patriotism is not a nasty little prejudice, a?*
some of the sociologists hold it to be. It is a
dangerous obsession, a relic of primitive life
and flatiy opposed to the intellectually con?
ceived ideal of the brotherhood ot man. Patriot?
ism represents one of the early instincts given
to man apparently for the purpose of keeping
him well assembled in herd form?in other
words, in the form of nations.
Individuals of a warring nation may pass
over into a condition of hypnosis to a greater
or lesser extent.
Medical friends of mine who have recently
been studying the situation on the battlefields
of Europe say that most of the soldiers in all
of the countries now appear to be in a state
of hypnosis to some degree.
They have no clear idea of just what they
are fighting about. Even the higher officers
apologize for their respective countries being
in the war at all. My friends were impressed
by the morbid mentality which seems to have
become prevalent in Europe (Morbid enxy
mic end result ) As a general statement the
people of Europe are now a sick people.
When individuals of a whole nation become
disordered through the chemical influence o?
those enzymes which are brought out by stress
of emotion we cannot anticipate a very ra?
tional movement toward peace until sheer ex?
haustion compels a cessation of hostilities.
The angels doubtless have moments of mer?
riment when they observe the Prussian?a
synonyme for materialism?depending upon
God for help to victory. Most of the other
nations engaged in warfare are now calling
upon a higher power for aid.
Nature in order to conduct evolution brings
two fairly balanced forces against each other
and then sets them at work, verv much as bad
boys set two bulldogs upon each other and
then bet upon the consequences of the fight.
According to laws of continuity, men, chil?
dren of nature, represent toy models of their
mothtr.
LIhEPROCESSAN ENDLESS STRUGGLE
inorganic crystalloids are engaged in war?
fare with each other and with ?organic . olloids.
Various reigning organic colloids are engaged
in warfare with each other and with crystal?
loids. This warfare extends to the multiples
of col?is, and man is one of these multiples.
Animals and vegetables so arrange their col?is
as to develop organs of offence and of defence,
of commissary and of multiplication, in order
to conduct their world busir-"?
The lowest forms of organic life (sometimes
consisting of single cells) enter into a strug?
gle with each other by means of chemical cell
secretions which we call enzymes. Higher
forms of animal life enter into a struggle
againr.t each other with the aid of tooth and
ciaw. still being actuated by the enzymes of
their col?is or tissue cells.
The highest form of animal life?man?em?
ploys intelligence for making an extension of
teeth and claw in the form of gun and sabre.
With these extensions from weapons furnished
by nature- man goes into action against other
forms of organic life, including his brother
man. still actuated by the enzymes of his tissue
cells.
Warfare, please note, according to the law
of continuity, is always enzymic in all stages,
from the struggle between simple cells up to
the struggle between multiples of these simpla
cells in the form of man or of some other ani?
mal.
Men are inclined to make a luxury of their
emotions even to the point of becoming con?
noisseurs of more pleasurable emotions during
times oi peace. Such luxury, however, is al?
ways expensive and has to be paid for like
ar?y other luxury. The disagreeable emotions
vhich are liberated in response to desire for
warfare likewise have to be paid for.
The increased chemical action which occurs
in the presence of emotion leads to increased
acidity thro-jgh carbon dioxide formation. A
man who becomes angry has become actually
sour in all of his tissues and may be giving
himself gall stones or hard arteries if he keeps
it up for a prolonged period. The same thing
is true when emotion is depicted for purposes
of our diversion. The actress who enters into
a strong emotional state is likely enough giv?
ing herself nephritis.
HOW BALANCE IS UPSET.
Under ordinary circumstances a good chem?
ical balance is kept between the effects of that
degree of emotion whkh is required for daily
activity and the motion which is called into
action by the emotion. It is only at times
when emotion runs by the capacity of the body
cells for restoring chemical balance that injury
to the individual results.
All nations which are engaged in competi?
tion with each other are machines for trar.
forming potential brain cell energy into kinetic
energy belonging to the motions of offenen
and of defence.
Crile recently secured photographs of sol?
diers engaged in the war in Europe showing an
expression of high degree of emotion, one
which would be more or less destructive to the
individual. There was one photograph of a
soldier who killed a captain and fourteen men
single handed. The photograph of the face
of this man (secured a few moments after ho
had completed his passage at arms) showed
such an intense effect of emotion that the sol?
dier was evidently himself in a dangeroua po?
sition. He was killing himself chemically and
might even die as a result of his own chem?
istry which had been called out in the coure?
of his violent act.
Whenever the diplomats of different nationn
reach their limitations, thereby becoming
bankrupt intellectually, they fall back upon
primitive ways of coping with each other.
Frederick the Great expressed the opinion
that warfare between civilized nations would
recur at periods about five years apart. War
tare which has been of direct interest to Aryan
nations alone during the fifty years of my
observation has recurred rather oftener than
once in five years, viz: Our Civil War, the
German - Austrian, Franco - Prussian, Serbo
Bulgarian. Turco-Russian, Spanish-American,
Anglo-Boer. Greco - Turkish. Russo-Japanese,
Italo-Tripolitan, Balkan, and the present Euro?
pean war. That would make the incidents
rather less than five years apart, and w? leave
out of the calculation a much larger number of
lesser conflicts.
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