The Revolt Against Civilization

The Menace of the Under Man

By

LOTHRUP STODDARD, A.M., PH.D (Harvard)

Copyright 1922, Charles Scribner's Sons


Contents:

Preface

CHAPTER 1 -- THE BURDEN OF CIVILIZATION

CHAPTER II --THE IRON LAW OF INEQUALITY

CHAPTER III -- THE NEMESIS OF THE INFERIOR

CHAPTER IV -- THE LURE OF THE PRIMITIVE

CHAPTER V -- THE GROUNDSWELL OF REVOLT

CHAPTER VI -- THE REBELLION OF THE UNDER-MAN

CHAPTER VII -- THE WAR AGAINST CHAOS

CHAPTER VIII -- NEO-ARISTOCRACY

Index


PREFACE

THE revolutionary unrest which to-day afflicts the entire
world goes far deeper than is generally supposed.
Its root-cause is not Russian Bolshevik propaganda,
not the late war, not the French Revolution, but a
process of racial impoverishment, which destroyed the
great civilizations of the past and which threatens to
destroy our own.

This grim blight of civilized society has been correctly
diagnosed only in recent years. The momentous biological
discoveries of the past generation have revealed
the true workings of those hitherto mysterious laws of
life on which, in the last analysis, all human activity
depends.

In the light of these biological discoveries, confirmed
and amplified by investigations in other fields of science,
especially psychology, all political and social problems
need to be re-examined.

Such a re-examination of one of these problems -- the
problem of social revolution -- has been attempted
in the present book.

LOTHROP STODDARD

BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS,
March 30, 1922