ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the part of race in the genesis of revolutions, and explains why the same revolutions will produce the different effects in different countries; why, for example, the ideas of the French Revolution, welcomed with the enthusiasm by some peoples, were rejected by others. Excessive malleability of the national mind impels a people to incessant revolutions. The peoples whose mind is most fixed and established often effect the most violent revolutions. The influence of race in the destiny of the peoples appears plainly in the history of the perpetual revolutions of the Spanish republics of South America. The motto of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a true manifestation of hope and faith at the beginning of the Revolution, soon merely served to cover a legal justification of the sentiments of jealousy, cupidity, and hatred of superiors, the true motives of crowds unrestrained by discipline.
