What makes nations, and breaks them by Lawrence Auster

Many people argue today that the Hispanic and illegal alien population of the United States is so large, or that the birthrate of Muslims in the West is so high, or that the pressure of Third-World immigration is so great, that there is nothing for us to do about these things but "adjust" ourselves to them and accept, step by step, the loss of our civilization and of our historical existence as a distinct society. Such people are thinking in materialist terms and are failing to understand the spiritual factors that determine the outcomes of the small and great contests of history. Whether we're talking about a football game or a war, it is not mere numbers or physical strength that decides the winner, but belief, confidence, and will. Further, just as belief in the rightness of one's cause leads to victory, belief in the rightness of the other side's cause and the wrongness of one's own leads to defeat.

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