ABSTRACT
Unfortunately these Nordics have fallen upon evil days. Everywhere they are in danger of extinction, unless they devise effective methods of protection against their ‘enemies’. One of their chief virtues, the fighting propensity, has even told against them. For though they have been conquerors, when fairly pitted against Alpines, Mediterraneans, or coloured peoples, they have through long ages suffered heavily from losses in these struggles. Worse than this, they have sinned against Nordic solidarity, fighting among themselves. Here is the gravest charge brought by anthropology against the Great War, that the nations engaged in it were largely Nordic, and that the Nordic strains, being represented disproportionately to their numbers in the several belligerent nations, suffered greater losses than the other races.
