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78 sexual appetite in the male, even if he be an individual endowed with great refinement and learning, often completely blinds him, renders him practically irresponsible in many cases, and the desire for variety coming into play, carries him over almost anything and he will have carnal intercourse with almost anything in the shape of a woman. Some women, too, are so constituted, or rather are similarly constituted, and when their passions are once aroused they are not inclined to draw any line for race, color or condition.

Black, brown, red or yellow skin make no difference whatever, and there will always be found plenty of representatives in the one race to cross with an equal number of representatives in the other. There will be large numbers of exceptions to this, of course, — the vast majority of the females of the advanced race will not interbreed with the males of the lower race, and in the case of the males of the former, many will be found who will likewise shun such intercourse, controlled either by the emotion of sentiment, the feeling of disgust, the domination of self-respect, or a feebleness of the passionate appetite, and for other reasons. Still the interbreeding will go on with marked increase during certain periods, and may largely fall off at other times. These fluctuations will be due to various causes, but it will nevertheless always be progressing in some degree or other, and a hybrid race be continually produced. War, social and political privileges and restrictions, the gradual degradation of the morale of the higher stock, and the increas- ing push and effrontery of the lower, will, with several other reasons, all exert an influence, but, as I say, nothing will entirely check it. It very soon becomes