. The history of mankind . and east of one quarter of the globe. The greater bulk, quicker growth, andsuperiority in all conquering arts, which mark the more highly civilized races, givethem, wherever climate is not unfavourable, the advantage in this process, and wecan speak of an absorption of the lower by the higher even where the latter forthe present are not in the majority. If there is any consolation in the universaldisappearance of native races, it is the knowledge that a great part of them isbeing slowly raised by the process of intermixture. No doubt people like torepeat a statement,
. The history of mankind . and east of one quarter of the globe. The greater bulk, quicker growth, andsuperiority in all conquering arts, which mark the more highly civilized races, givethem, wherever climate is not unfavourable, the advantage in this process, and wecan speak of an absorption of the lower by the higher even where the latter forthe present are not in the majority. If there is any consolation in the universaldisappearance of native races, it is the knowledge that a great part of them isbeing slowly raised by the process of intermixture. No doubt people like torepeat a statement, professedly based on old experience, that in half-breeds thevices of both parents predominate, but a glance at the national life of the presentday is enough to show that Mulattos, Mestizos, Negro and Arab half-breeds 1 [There is some doubt whether the actual number of North American Indians has much the natural multiplication of the race has been checked.] SITUATION, ASPECT AND NUMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Sandili, king of the Gaikas ; showing the Semitic type of theKaffirs. (From a photograph by G. Fritsch.) stand in America and in Africa at the head of Indians and Negroes. Themixture once begun continues to progress, and each fresh infusion of higherblood tends to reduce the interval by levelling up. We need only consider hownearly the Indians of Mexico andPeru have risen to the level of thepeople of European descent, fromwhom they seemed at the time ofthe Conquest to be separated by abottomless chasm. If the history of the worldshows a spread, interrupted indeedbut ever progressing, of civilizationthroughout the earth, the naturalnumerical preponderance existingamong civilized folk is an im-portant factor therein. The peoplewho increase the more quickly pourout their surplus upon the others,and thus the influence of the higherculture, which itself was the causeor condition of the more rapidmultiplication, gets spontaneouslythe upper hand. Thus the spreadof c
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