They are no more ridiculous than the
old Greeks who thought that a magnet could be regulated by garlic
or goat's blood. And their wild theories of to-day may settle
down into great utility centuries from now. This applies to
Christian Science, faith cures, telepathy, and the many other
speculations of the present day. There is unquestionably much
future fruit and value in many or all of them.
WHO IS INDEPENDENT? NOBODY
We all have our moments of imagining ourselves INDEPENDENT
characters. We take pride in our independence and are never as
foolish as when trying to prove how independent we are.
Every man, to begin with, is born absolutely at the mercy of his
ancestry. You have not a thing in you, and you never will have a
thing in you, that you did not inherit from some one of the
thousands and thousands of ancestors, all of whom are dimly
stored away in your complex make-up.
You may develop marvellously the faculties which they gave you.
But you ARE DEPENDENT on those who brought you into the world,
and upon those back of them.
The Kaffir, sober, industrious, honest, with all the virtues
rolled up within him, has not a fragment of one chance in ten
thousand billions of equalling the achievements of a tenth-rate
white man whose ancestral start was better.
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