'WE DO NOT KNOW WHY EMPIRES FALL AND STATES
DECAY; BUT WE CAN AT ANY RATE CONJECTURE,
WITH NO LITTLE JUSTICE, THAT A DISTURBANCE
OF THE RACIAL COMPOSITION OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE WAS ONE GREAT CAUSE OF ITS FALL.
RIGHT LAWS AND SOUND MORALS FORM THE
STRONGEST SAFEGUARD OF EVERY NATIONAL STATE;
BUT A SOUND RACIAL BASIS IS ALSO
NECESSARY. A NATION MAY BE ENRICHED BY
THE VARIED CONTRIBUTIONS OF FOREIGN
IMMIGRATION; BUT IF THE STREAM OF
IMMIGRATION GROWS UNCHECKED INTO THE VOLUME
OF A GREAT RIVER, A NATION MAY LOSE THE
INTEGRITY OF THE SOLID CORE WHICH IS THE
BASIS OF ITS TRADITION AND THE NATION WHICH
LOSES ITS TRADITIONS HAS LOST ITS VERY
SELF.'
The present must be balanced on
the wings of the past and the
future, and that as you stretch
out the one you stretch out the
other to strength.'
Wordsworth
