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Expand Up @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ It is consequently incorrect to assert that aprioristic insight and pure reasoni

If there had been races which had developed a different logical structure of the mind, they would have failed in the use of reason as an aid in the struggle for existence. The only means for survival that could have protected them against extermination would have been their instinctive reactions. Natural selection would have eliminated those specimens of such races that tried to employ reasoning for the direction of their behavior. Those individuals alone would have survived that relied upon instincts only. This means that only those would have had a chance to survive that did not rise above the mental level of animals.

The scholars of the West have amassed an enormous amount of material concerning the high civilizations of China and India and the primitive civilizations of the Asiatic, American, Australian, and African aborigines. It is safe to say that all that is worth knowing about the ideas of these races is known. But never has any supporter of polylogism tried to use these data for a description of the allegedly different logic of these peoples and civilizations.
de scholars of the West don get plenty amount of material wey gats do with de high civilizations of China and India and de primitive civilization of de Asiatic, American, Australian, and de African Aborigines. E dey safe to talk say all wey we suppose sabi about dis races, we don sabi am. But nobody wey dey support polylogism don try to use dis data to describe de different logic of dis peoples and civilizations.

[^13]: Cf. L.G. Tirala, *Rasse, Geist und Seele* (Munich, 1935), pp. 190 ff.

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