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WHY CIVILIZATIONS
SELF-DESTRUCT
ELMER PENDELL
WHY CIVILIZATIONS SELF-DESTRUCT
ELMER PENDELL
Giant intellects like Gibbon, Spengler and Toynbee have
gi\'en us complex and tortuous reasons for the decline of civili-
zations. Dr. Pendell presents us with a simple one. Civilizations
fall because the less capable slice of the population regularly
outbreeds the more capable.
In
precivilized times nature weeds
out the unfit and eventually produces a superior variety of men
",hose intelligence and industriousness are channeled into con-
structing an advanced social order that defeats nature's best-laid
plans by protecting instead of eliminating the unfit. The out-
come is that in several generations the protected outnumber the
protectors.
Dr. Pendell scours the annals of history to prove his point,
after beginning his seminal study with a remarkable analysis of
the inborn, polarized egotistic and altruistic drives which are
the biological basis for both the building and unbuilding of
civilizations.
Most illlportantly, Dr. Pendell offers us ways and means to
stop the historic and hitherto unstoppable processes of social en-
tropy. One of his most intriguing-and most controversial-
remedies is a genetically oriented marriage law to raise the
birthrate of ollr better human specimens and substantially lower
the proliferation rate of the civilization-destroying people who
can neither provide for themselves nor their offspring.
Cover Illustrations: Reconstruction of the Ziggurat of Ur-
Nammu and Shulgi at Ur (Third Dynasty,
.2200-2100
B.C.) ,
drawing by Claude Abeille after a model by Wooley. The Zig-
gurat today (photo by Andre Parrott) .
Why
Civilizations Self-Destruct
Why Civilizations
Self-Destruct
Elmer Pendell
HOWARD ALLEN
CAPE CANAVERAL

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