deference to the one member of the family who invented,
created, preparing both the food and the clothing, is a marked Teutonic
instinct. Its survival is seen yet in the sturdy German of the middle
class, who takes his wife and children with him when he goes to the
concert or to the beer-garden. So has he always taken his family with
him on his migrations; whereas the Greeks and the Romans left their
women behind.
South America was colonized by Spanish men. And the Indians and the
Negroes absorbed the haughty grandee, yet preserved the faults and
failings of both.
The German who moves to America comes to stay--his family is a part of
himself. The Italian comes alone, and his intent is to make what he can
and return. This is a modified form of conquest.
The Romans who came to Brittany in Caesar's time were men. Those who
remained "took to themselves wives among the daughters of Philistia," as
strong men ever are wont to do when they seek to govern savage tribes.
And note this--instead of raising the savages or barbarians to their
level, they sink to theirs. The child takes the status of the mother.
The white man who marries an Indian woman becomes an Indian and their
children are Indians. With the Negro race the same law holds.
The Teutonic races have conquered the world because they took their
women with them on their migrations, mental and physical. And the moral
seems to be this, that the men who progress financially, morally and
spiritually are those who do not leave their women-folk behind.
* * * * *
When we think of the English, we usually have in mind the British Isles.
But the original England was situated along the southern shore of the
Baltic Sea. This was the true Eng-Land, the land of the Engles or
Angles. To one side lay Jute-Land, the home of the Jutes. On the other
was Saxony, where dwelt the Saxons.
Jute-Land still lives in Jutland; the land of the Saxons is yet so
indicated on the map; but Eng-Land was transported bodily a thousand
miles, and her original territory became an abandoned farm where
barbarians battled.
And now behold how England has diffused herself all over the world, with
the British Isles as a base of supplies, or a radiating center. Behind
this twenty miles of water that separates Calais and Dover she found
safety and security, and there her brain and brawn evolved and expanded.
So there are now Anglo-Americans, Anglo-Africans, Anglo-Indian
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