4 02 TEE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



4 cities ought to suffice to throw light on a number of important 

 questions. 



The truth of the matter is that all the stocks that have come into 

 America in recent years since 1830 have been very inferior to those 

 already here in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and in gen- 

 eral they have been getting worse and worse. There have been a few 

 notable exceptions, but broadly speaking all our very capable men of the 

 present day have been engendered from the Anglo-Saxon element 

 already here before the beginning of the nineteenth century. We some- 

 times read magazines and newspaper articles about the Irish in America, 

 the Germans in America, the French in America, the Jews in America, 

 describing the achievements of distinguished foreigners who have risen 

 to high esteem and publishing portraits of the same. It is because they 

 are relatively few that it is possible to make a magazine article out of 

 the material. Who ever saw a similar article on the English in America ? 

 The statistically true can be exciting only to the scientifically inclined. 



We have heard a great deal about the Melting-Pot, but no one as far 

 as I know has brought forward any proof that there is a Melting-Pot in 

 true biological sense, i, e., that there is any genuine mingling of blood 

 sufficient to overcome the natural tendency that all species and varieties 

 have to grow apart and become more dissimilar in course of time. If 

 there had been a thorough mingling of the races in this country, there 

 would have already been a decline in natural ability, but the tendency 

 of like to mate with like, the natural tendency of the most successful 

 to mate among themselves, works in the opposite direction. The real 

 strength of a country is so dependent on the qualities of its leaders that 

 it behooves patriots, sociologists and philosophers to take all these ques- 

 tions into account and consider more carefully the genesis and signifi- 

 cance of that small fraction of one per cent, which represents the 

 intellectual crust. 



