There is no going back, now, there can be nothing but advance toward
progress and higher civilization, that is, in the more adequate and
efficient means of making the burden of life more enjoyable and easier.
In one thing only is there doubt as to our progress, and that is in
human development, and racial perfection. The scientists and thinkers of
the age are impressed with the fact that there is degeneracy, or at
least, “recession,” as it is termed, which means a going back to some
unknown evil type that will operate disastrously upon civilization,
morals, and general well-being of individuals.
By a remarkable unanimity of opinion, these marks of recession and
degeneracy, sometimes called “delinquency,” are limited to the posterity
of the Aryan type. Superhuman efforts are making to avert catastrophe by
what is known as “selection,” that is, by limiting intermarriages to
those who shall have been declared physically and mentally capable of
assuming the marriage state. But in the opinion of many, this will still
be a further remove from the pure Aryan type, and thus be always
descending the human scale. At any rate, there can be no reversion to an
ancestral type, because the ancestor himself is mixed, and there is no
pure strain to culture up to.
But with the Jews and Africans, there is no such question, because the
type remains as it was in the beginning, and it is very easy to make a
selection.