That there has been such a clearly marked reactionary influence, if not domination, over our studies, is so patently obvious that it hardly needs to be stressed. Even those who have not subscribed to any form of political doctrine have felt it safer to make interpretations of the facts of race and heredity in such terms that they can bear a clearly egalitarian interpretation.... The anxiety which is shown to suppress publications and expositions which do not support egalitarianism is entirely consistent with this political direction of, and domination over, science.... [W]e wish to state categorically what are the views of the editors on the matter of racial equality. While rejecting racial egalitarianism as having no warranty in honest scientific expositions and investigations, we do not, on the other hand, subscribe to doctrines of racial _superiority_ or _inferiority_. We believe that just as all individuals within a particular stock are different, so is one racial group in relation to another. In respect of some characters, various stocks will be superior to others; and in other cases inferior; but in many cases no perceptible differences may be apparent. While environment, both physical and social, may influence these characters, we believe that heredity is by far the most important single factor, and the current fashion to eschew the significance of heredity is a definite disservice to the understanding of what makes for differences in the various characters which distinguish one group from another. Furthermore, we do not presume to judge what is desirably superior or not. We think that within the ambit of the type of civilizations erected by the White-Brown stocks or the Yellow races, the Black, which has shown no natural predilection to that form of organization, will be at a disadvantage in any competition--and is _in that sense_ inferior. After all, a _priori_ considerations alone would lead to this conclusion, and if modern science thinks this is not the case, it has yet to show why and how the Melanoids have remained technologically backward compared to both the Mongoloids and the Caucasoids. For the Egyptian civilization, which was basically Caucasoid (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Nordic, and Armenoid strains being the basis of that nationality), abutted on the Negroid world of Africa, and its ideas were there to be accepted and copied, so that urban technological civilizations could have been erected in Africa, if that way of life had appealed to the inherent Negroid genius and temperament. It is only within this last millennium that certain ideas generated in Egypt four millennia ago began to reach West Africa--long after the Nile Valley civilization had decayed and disappeared.