The Following Is an Excerpt from a Speech by Henry

The following is an excerpt from a speech by Henry Cabot Lodge on immigration reform (Evaluating the Evidence 24.1) : "[I]t is on the moral qualities of the English-speaking race that our history, our victories, and all our future rest. There is only one way in which you can lower those qualities or weaken those characteristics, and that is by breeding them out. If a lower race mixes with a higher in sufficient numbers, history teaches us that the lower race will prevail. . . . The lowering of a great race means not only its own decline, but that of civilization. . . ."
Lodge believed that moral qualities

A) were universal and could be found in every race.
B) evolved in response to historical developments.
C) were always relative and not absolute.
D) were inherent characteristics of each race.