The Way out of war Author:Robert Tuttle Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NATIONS A NATION represents some one variety of animal in particular, although that nation may contain several racial elements. Some one racial element consti... more »tutes the dominating variety. We are to remember that when any variety of animal or plant is subjected to cultural processes it finally expends its protoplasmic energy and goes into decline. For object lessons let us take the Wilson Strawberry, ancient Greece, the Morgan horse, Rome, the peachblow potato, Egypt, and the Newfoundland dog. Here we have a definite object lesson relating to varietal organisms which have reached cultural limitations and then declined. In accordance with the law of continuity applied to everything in nature, nations are similar to varieties of plants. Nature retains her great vested fund of protoplasmic energy in a race. Mutant forms emerging from any race, from time to time, expend their special loans ofprotoplasmic energy rapidly and then disappear, while the racial mean type persists. Protoplasmic energy runs out of a species more rapidly than it runs out of a genus, and a variety loses energy more quickly than it is lost to a species. Nature places many checks against the exhaustion of race energy, but she allows nations (varietal hybrids) springing from any one race to make cross combinations exhibiting various degrees of power. Durable nations are composed of varietal hybrids. Specific hybrids on the other hand populate the turbulent states. Mexico is largely populated by specific hybrids: Aryan (Spanish) x Mongolian (Indian). In the absence of an external compelling force we may anticipate that a series of short, sharp revolutions will occur for centuries to come in Mexico, excepting when some remarkable mutant like a Diaz executes aspirants for domination who ask questions, and then make...« less