Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science

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Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science

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Abstract

What I have said about bad stock seems to me to hold for the lower races of man. How many centuries, how many thousands of years, have the Kaffir [a tribe in southern Africa] or the negro held large districts in Africa undisturbed by the white man? Yet their intertribal struggles have not yet produced a civilization in the least comparable with the Aryan [western European]. Educate and nurture them as you will, I do not believe that you will succeed in modifying the stock.