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"Dick, boy, your position is distinctly Carlylean," Terrence McFane said in fatherly tones

The sages of the rove were at table, and, with Paula, Dick and Graha of one's position does not settle it, Terrence," Dick replied "I know my point is Carlylean, but that does not invalidate it Hero-worship is a very good thing I a, not as a mere scholastic, but as a practical breeder hom the application of Mendelian methods is an every-day commonplace"

"And I aood as a white man?"

"Now the South speaks, Aaron," Dick retorted with a smile "Prejudice, not of birth, but of early environ for all your philosophy to shake It is as bad as Herbert Spencer's handicap of the early influence of the Manchester School"

"And Spencer is on a par with the Hottentot?" Dar Hyal challenged

Dick shook his head

"Let e Hottentot, or the average Melanesian, is pretty close to being on a par with the average white man The difference lies in that there are proportionately so e, while there is such a heavy percentage of white e These are what I called the pace- e-e the nature or develop the intelligence of the average-ive them better equipment, better facilities, enable them to travel a faster collective pace

"Give an Indian a modern rifle in place of his bow and arrows and he will becoetter The Indian hunter hihtest But his entire Indian race sported so few of the above-average enerations, were unable to equip him with a rifle"

"Go on, Dick, develop the idea," Terrence encouraged "I begin to glimpse your drive, and you'll soon have Aaron on the run with his race prejudices and silly vanities of superiority"

"These above-average men," Dick continued, "these pace-makers, are the inventors, the discoverers, the constructionists, the sporting dominants A race that sports few such dominants is classified as a lower race, as an inferior race It still hunts with bows and arrows It is not equipped Now the average white man, per se, is just as bestial, just as stupid, just as inelastic, just as stagnative, just as retrogressive, as the average savage But the average whitedoanization, and impose the law