American inventor, author and scholar Seth K. Humphrey turned his mind to the only real reason behind the rise and fall of civilization: race.

An unashamed Anglophile, Humphrey's racial analysis, his call for eugenics and racial betterment ring as true now as when first penned.

"Dissipation of the better racial values and multiplication of the poorer have played a continuous part at tumbling race, state, and civilization into a dusty heap with periodic certainty..."

"A race with inborn qualities for progress chooses its climate just as it chooses its fields and woods and harbors; these things do not develop accidental humans into a dominant race. The best of natural conditions failed to make anything of the American Indian or the Australian aborigine. The White man finds himself in possession of the best of the earth because of his capacity for choosing well; the best of the earth did not make him a White man..."

"It is safe to assert that families which average less than three children brought to maturity are in process of dying out."

Contents

Introductory

I. A Panoramic View

Prehistoric Man

II. Principles of Inheritance

Like Tends to Produce Like

III. The Race's Heritage

A Hertiage from the Ages

IV. Birth-Rate and Race Values

Man Discards Nature's Methods

V. Racial Slackers

The Superior Inheritance

VI. The Fertility of the Unwanted

The Obviously Defective

VII. The Road to Decline

Ineffectives Clog Social Machine

VIII. Human Values in Reserve

Successive Breeding

IX. Exhaustion of Reserves

Race Conservation on New Basis

X. The Dominant White

Man's Time Compared to All Time

XI. Our Racial Poverty

Small Per Cent of Superior Ability

XII. Effects of the War

The Great Opportunity

XIII. France, England, Russia

War's Decision Inconclusive

XIV. Germany, the Isolated

A Distinctive Stock

XV. America: the Melting-Pot

Mixtures Of Unlike Types

XVI. America: the Negro-White

Complete Racial Estrangement of White and Black

XVII. America: the Labor Immigrant

Effect on Race Values

XVIII. Which People Shall Dominate?

The Mass Instinct

XIX. Eugenic Misconceptions

Eugenics For The Whole Community

XX. Into the Future

Eliminating Undesirables - The New Motherhood- A Race Well-Bred.