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either remains childless or his children are not
only ordinary, but often insignificant. It may
be that nature has exhausted her power of
production in these great personalities, or as is
often assumed, the creative power of genius
in an intellectual direction, diminishes the
creative power in the physical direction.
Along with the question of heredity stands
that of the development of races. In the
beginning of the Origin of Species Darwin
showed how essential pure descent is for the
production of a noble race. This theory is
appealed to by a modern anti-Semitic writer,
who represents the Jew as a typical example
of pure race, an idea which one of the
most conspicuous representatives of Judaism,
Disraeli, has also expressed in the following
words: “Race is everything; there is no
other truth, and every race which carelessly
allows mixed blood, perishes.” Yet other
specialists consider some racial mixture as
highly advantageous to the offspring.
Professor Westermark has offered a good
reason for the significance attached to beauty
in the case of love, and therefore its importance
for the race. He has shown how man has
conceived physical beauty to be the full development
of all of those characteristics which
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