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Humboldt and Darwin held the same opinion. Hilaire Belloc in 

 "The French Revolution" notes regarding Marat 



Some say . . . that a mixture of racial types produced in him a perpetual 

 physical disturbance: his face was certainly distorted and ill-balanced (p. 78). 



Schultz claims to have noted an intrinsic deterioration in Gentile- 

 Jew crosses. Le Bon expresses himself as follows : 



To cross two peoples is to change simultaneously both their physical con- 

 stitution and their mental constitution . . . the first effect of interbreeding 

 between different races is to destroy the soul of the race, and by their soul we 

 mean that congeries of common ideas and sentiments which make the strength 

 of people, and without which there is no such thing as a nation or a fatherland 

 ... a people may sustain many losses, may be overtaken by many catastrophes, 

 and yet recover from the ordeal, but it has lost everything and is past recovery, 

 when it has lost its soul (pp. 53-55). 



Le Bon explains this supposed necessary degeneration in half- 

 breeds as due to the "influence of contrary heredities" which "saps 

 their morality and character." We shall return to Le Bon's idea of a 

 loss of "soul" as consequent of inter-racial crosses. 



This same idea of necessary degeneracy in crossbreeds is the main 

 motive of much opposition to foreign immigration. We shall see that 

 this is the very least element of danger; in fact, it may be a real 

 panacea to other actual evils of immigration, otherwise (i. e., without 

 neutralization through cross-breeding) a serious menace. Note here 

 the superb products of the English, German, Dutch, French and Span- 

 ish crosses of late and post-colonial days. The superiority of especially 

 the English- German crosses, very generally noted, finds its reason in 

 the initial superiority of the crossing stocks. And this is the secret of 

 the entire matter. Offspring take after their parents, whether these 

 be of the same or different race. The production of the Boer race, one 

 of well-marked physical and mental characteristics, notwithstanding 

 that it is of mongrel immigration, Dutch, French, and in some degree, 

 British, is sufficient disproof of inherent hurt in inter-racial crosses. 

 The more progressive of " white " nations have been produced by 

 European interbreedings, for example, the English and the Bulgars. 

 Furthermore, Davenport reminds us of probably even Ethiopian con- 

 tributions to our European stock, "when we stop to consider the slaves, 

 not only white and yellow, but also brown and black, that were brought 

 to Rome, became free there and contributed elements to the population 

 of Italy and to all Europe." Indeed, this may well have been a partial 

 source of the pigment of European brunets. 



Thoroughbred parents produce similar progeny. Inferior or de- 

 generate parents have only defective children. In proof of which the 

 following : Probably the most brilliant student I have ever known is the 

 son of a high-class Chinese woman by an American missionary. There 

 is probably as great a difference, from a general anatomical viewpoint, 



