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United States, the stimulus of a comparatively rigorous climate, and 

 the examples of white neighbors organized into a complex and highly 

 competitive industrial civilization. The reserve of foresight, energy 

 and ambition which the white Brazilian has inherited from his ances- 

 tors stands him in good stead in the easy and enervating surroundings, 

 while the negro will only work when he is obliged to. 



The race which will inherit the fertile and salubrious plains and 

 plateaux stretching north from the Argentine border to the lowlands 

 of the Amazon will probably be of Caucasian origin and descent, 

 although its characteristics may have become much modified in fitting 

 its new surroundings. The Azorean hoes his little patch of ground 

 with the painstaking industry of the JSTorman peasant, but his gaucho 

 descendant in Eio Grande neglects agriculture for riding after cattle. 

 A capacity for indolence may perhaps be one of the conditions of sur- 

 vival in tropical climates, and the future master of these regions will 

 possibly possess oriental characteristics, and may lose some qualities he 

 inherits from his immediate ancestors, the restless Latins, Celts and 

 Teutons of western Europe. 



So far as it has gone, Brazil's experience tends to prove that the 

 white man has the adaptability, vitality and fecundity to ensure his 

 preponderance in the tropics as well as in the temperate zone, and that 

 the other races will exist there upon his sufferance. 



