This view Dr. Dorsey subjected to a critical examination. He observed that the assumption grew out of perfectly natural biologic conceptions. Nature had endowed every individual, and every group of men, with an instinct of his or their own.
"rightness," a8 an instrument to equip them for the struggle for life, and it was thus that the white man condemned the black man and partially condemned the yellow man. By the same process, the Methodist thought the Roman Catholic a pretty poor Christian, while the Roman Catholic doubted if the Methodist were really @ Christian at all. Both of them knew that the heathen was doomed to perish. The same principle was at work in the European struggle. Th> Englishman was fighting for what he considered to be the most advanced civilization in the world. The German was moved by exactly the same idea. Neither Englishman nor German could be persuaded that he was not right from his own point of view. It was a purely natural process, and had nothing to do with rational thinking.
It would som that there was sufficient historical evidence to warrant the European in assuming that his culture was actually superior, and his body was actually superior, to that of other races, This in itself was taken as evidence of an innate superiority. The European regarded with pride the fact that his ancestors discovered and conquered and dominated America and Australia, that the white man ruled in India, that he had taught Japan all she knew of modern life, tolerat the Mohammedan world, and cut up and parceled Africa like a cheese.
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