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Updated: May 26, 2025
Three of these were the ordinary, ragged, discouraged, emaciated, diseased "bums," only too common in that city. In early California a man either succeeded or he failed into a dark abyss of complete discouragement; the new civilization had little use for weaklings. The fourth man can be no better described than in the words of a chronicler of the period.
There in years past the lambs and weaklings from the herds above had drifted to their death, but never before had the maelstrom claimed a man. Swimming weakly with the current Hardy made a last ineffectual effort to gain the bank; then fixing his eyes upon his partner he resigned himself to the drag of the whirlpool, staking his life on a single throw of the rope.
One thing the Dean will not, cannot tolerate weakness in one who should be strong. Even bad men he admires, if they are strong not for their badness, but for their strength. Mistaken men he loves in spite of their mistakes if only they be not weaklings. There is no place anywhere in the Dean's philosophy of life for a weakling.
We all laughed heartily at this idea, including the doctor himself, who continued: "Well, what else can we do to stop them? Stop them we must, or we shall soon become a race of weaklings and mental imbeciles." Thorwald had been getting more and more interested, as I could see by his face, and now broke out with: "Doctor, you surprise me.
It refuses to bring forth weaklings; refuses to bring forth slaves; refuses to bear children who must live under the conditions described. It withholds the unfit, brings forth the fit; brings few children into homes where there is not sufficient to provide for them. Instinctively it avoids all those things which multiply racial handicaps.
From earliest times when men first sailed the seas this coast has taken heavy toll of ships and of human lives, and in the race that it has bred, necessarily there has been little room for weaklings; their men are even to this day of the type of the old Vikings from whom perhaps they descend fair-bearded and strong, blue-eyed and open of countenance.
That pressure has aggravated the severity of the struggle for existence, and this grinding of the mill of evolution has crushed the weaker strata of the population. Among those who have gone are laborers and their families, the owners and occupants of the poorest lands the famous abandoned farms, and the weaklings and dependents.
Let every American become steeled against coddling. Americans ought to resent coddling. It is a drug. Stand up and stand out; let weaklings take charity. Nothing in this country furnishes a better example of how a business may be turned from its function of service than do the railroads.
We seem to measure our success by the number of promotions and not by the quality of the training we give. We seem to be content to produce weaklings if only we can push them through the gateway of promotion. It matters not that they are unable to find their way alone through the mazes of life; let them acquire that ability later, after they have passed beyond our control.
The women, and with them a few helpless weaklings, had withdrawn to the rotunda, and before long they were laughing as saucily as ever.
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