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Show MENTAL POWER NOT GROWING ' Anglo-Saxon Success Result of Character, Char-acter, Rather Than Intellectual Intellec-tual Superiority. Slan Is no longer growing In mental men-tal capacity It the conclusions of a I British nuthorlty, Neville Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, ai j correct. He makes a distinction distinc-tion between Intellect, pure and simple, sim-ple, and the qualities that together make up what Is called churacter and finds It doubtful If tho races often regarded re-garded as inferior aro at any disadvantage disad-vantage In puro Intellect. It Is unfair to decldo mental capacity by comparing compar-ing tnose who hnvo had tho bonoflts of education giving the accumulated experience of centuries with semi-savages semi-savages who havo beon brought up In the bush. Two generations ngo the Japanese wero thought to bo little betatcr than barbarlous, of sm llln-tellcct, llln-tellcct, and tho 'Inmus of Bengal and tho aborlgl es of Australia were similarly regarded, but now they take front rank In modern universities, univer-sities, often excelling Europeans at examinations. Moro Important to average success than great Intellectual Intellec-tual ability are tho qualities constituting consti-tuting character such as courage, carnectness, determination, 'Judgment and sympathy Een these traits must bo preserved and strengthened by tho same process of natural selec tlon that has so powerfully Influenced physical evolution, and the character of the Individuals has mndo the character char-acter of nations Anglo-Saxon success, suc-cess, past and future, may bo looked upon as a result of national character, rather than any fancied Intellectual superiority |