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180 geographical region and not separated by any natural barriers. As a matter of fact, we have no examples in the history of man to guide us in our action or to point the way for us toward any effective and rational solution. The state of affairs preeminently requires some very independent thinking, and the exercise of more than usual judgment. Mixed races, we known from experience, however, rarely if ever succeed in the world's history and in mankind's career. The blacks, for a long time past, have interbred with the Indo-Europeans along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and although those blacks are of an infinitely better race than the stock we have with us in this country, it has been to the decided detriment of the whites, and resulted in distinctly retarding their progress. There is no reason whatever why we have any right to hope for any better results in the United States, and every reason to believe that they will be at all as good.

The great question now is. What will the eventual outcome of it all be? That is not so difficult to see. Possibly in a few places in the present volume I may have termed the state of affairs under consideration — a problem, while, as a matter of fact, there really is no problem, and to my mind the outcome of it all can hardly even be considered problematical. From mice to monkeys, and from monkeys to men, the mixing of a low and undesirable stock with a high and cultured stock is sure to produce a mixed stock, which is almost invariably not as good as either of the others that produced it. As I have before remarked, many times, there is but one remedy available, inasmuch as we cannot utterly destroy all the inferior race, and