SOURCE: “Wilfred Trotter's Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War,” in The Quarterly Review, No. 546, October, 1940, pp. 206-14.

Warner compares Germany and England in the light of Trotter's social theories.

‘The moral is to the physical,’ so the oft repeated adage runs, ‘as three to one.’ It may be true; as true as the fact that such preponderance is and has always been ours against the Germany of Hitler; but precisely where is the fullness of this strength may not always be apparent. Moral preponderance is, in this country, assumed; but friends sometimes need solid reason why they should believe our cause superior, and the answer is—shortly and simply—that the English Commonwealth of Nations has reached a higher level biologically than the forces ranged against it. This fact was demonstrated during the last world conflict in a thesis whose validity has never been seriously challenged...