The Blood of the Nation
A study of the decay of races through the survival of the unfit. By David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) President of a popular university in California. Printed in 1902.
... “Read the dreary record of the glory of France, the slaughter at Waterloo, the wretched failure of Moscow, the miserable deeds of Sedan, the waste of Algiers, the poison of Madagascar, the crimes of Indo-China, the hideous results of barrack vice and its entail of disease and sterility, and you will understand the “Man of the Hoe.” The man who is left, the man whom glory cannot use, becomes the father of the future men of France. As the long-horn cattle reappear in a neglected or abused herd of Durhams, so comes forth the aboriginal man, the “Man of the Hoe,” in a wasted race of men.”
poem: The Man with the Hoe