176 THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes, 

 Whose red-haired offspring everywhere remains; 

 Who, join'd with Norman French, compound the breed 

 From whence your "true-born Englishmen" proceed. 



Even the primary races of mankind are rapidly fusing in 

 many parts of the world. In the United States from 15 to 20 

 per cent of the total negro population of about 10,500,000 are 

 mulattoes and these are increasing more rapidly than the pure 

 blacks. In South American countries it has been estimated 

 that there are about 26,000,000 whites, Indians, and negroes, 

 and about 20,000,000 of mixed blood. In Australia and New 

 Zealand, after only a little more than a century of contact 

 with the whites, there are about as many "half castes" as full- 

 blooded aborigines. Similar tendencies to amalgamation of 

 the primary races are found in Mexico, the West Indies, 

 Africa, Indo-China, the islands of the Pacific, and in other 

 parts of the world. It is said that there are no cases in his- 

 tory where two races, however different, have for long occu- 

 pied the same territory and yet have preserved their racial 

 purity. Even the Jews, who are a peculiarly separate and 

 distinct race, have received large admixtures of Gentile blood 

 in every country in which they have lived. Fishberg says that 

 in western Europe, America, and Australia from 25 to 50 per 

 cent of all Jews who marry, marry non-Jews. 



If this movement goes on, as we have every reason to expect 

 that it will, it can only end in the more or less complete fusion 

 of existing races, and it needs only the vision that can look 

 ahead a few thousand years at most to see all races blended 

 into a common stream. What the results of such fusion may 

 be we can only guess, though its effects in ancient Egypt, 

 Greece, Italy, and more recently in various countries of 

 eastern Europe, the West Indies, Mexico, and South America 

 are by no means reassuring. Hybrids arc not necessarily in- 



