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In Peter Schmidt a sort of adjustment , or rather fusing , of the fundamental tendencies of those two great personalities was in process , though the Christ-Marxian principle of the protection of the weaker gave way to the natural principle of the protection of the stronger ; and this mirrors the result of the profoundest revolution that has ever taken place in the history of mankind . `` If , with that tough Friesian skull of yours , '' Frederick once said to him , `` you succeed for twenty years in propagating the idea of artificial selection as applied to man , and if the idea of race hygiene , of a teleologic improvement of human types is sufficiently spread , it will undoubtedly be fruitful of practical results some day . That is , a fresh , healthy , vigorous stream of blood will flow through our veins and tend more and more to counteract the increasing marasmus that is enfeebling the race . '' The first week Frederick regularly took his midday meal with the two physicians in a boarding-house . Towards dusk he always returned to his Diogenes tub , usually on foot . The next week he did not visit his friends so often , why , he himself did not know . He slept badly .