ian populations. Such
and such a province must be allotted to the Serbians, and not to the
Bulgarians, because such and such a dialect has more affinity to the
Serbian than to the Bulgarian language. Similarly, in the Latin
elements of their dictionary, Roumanian patriots find convincing
evidence of their Latin ancestry, and finally prove that they are the
lineal descendants of the Dacian legions of Emperor Trajan.[21]

[21] The Roumanian language is a composite language like
English. Even as the English vocabulary is mainly a blend of
Anglo-Saxon and Franco-Norman, so the Roumanian language is a
blend of Latin and Slavonic words. Many years ago the British
and Foreign Bible Society published a Roumanian Bible from
which the majority of the Slavonic words had been eliminated.
I pointed out in _Everyman_ that this Roumanian translation
was not Roumanian at all. The authorities of the Bible
Society indignantly protested and asked me to withdraw. I
refused to withdraw. The British and Foreign Bible Society
investigated the question, deferring to my criticisms, and
prepared and published a new revised version of their
Roumanian Bible in which the Slavonic words largely composing
the religious vocabulary of Roumania have been restored.

VI.

Those scientific arguments, biological and philological, may satisfy
the biologists and the philologists; they certainly satisfy nobody
else. All those pseudo-scientific facts belong to the realm of
fiction. Serious thinkers have ceased to prattle about the application
of biology to ethics since Huxley delivered his Romanes lecture on
"Evolution and Ethics." The encroachments of scientific materialism
have failed as signally in the political sciences as they have failed
in ethics.

It is futile to compare the processes which evolve races of man with
the processes which evolve breeds of animals. It is true that in the
lower stages of humanity the word "race" has a definite meaning. It
may be contended that there is a wide gulf between the races at the
extreme end of the human scale, a gulf which even the enthusiastic
devotion of missionary effort does not seem able to bridge. There is
such a thing as the "blackness" of the nigger and the "yellowness" of
the Chinese and the Japanese, although the Japanese have proved
themselves capable of assimilating Western civilization, and although
the black race has produced the greatest