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4 the highly skilled reader who can refrain from regarding the five different items listed as of somewhere nearly equal numerical importance, simply because the five different items are given exactly the same space and prominence when written down on the page.

It requires mental concentration in interpreting even these simple figures to get the correct impression of the very large percentage of the two chief races and the numerical insignificance of the one last named. If these data were shown in a simple horizontal bar, somewhat like that seen in Fig. 1, the relative proportions of the different races