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that nation has a future whose sons and daugh- 

 ters recognize and obey the primary laws of 

 their racial being. 



In these essentials Argentina, Chile, Uru- 

 guay, and Brazil have far more to teach than 

 to learn from the English-speaking countries 

 which are so proud of their abounding material 

 prosperity and of their wide-spread, but super- 

 ficial, popular education and intelligence. In 

 this same material prosperity, and in many 

 other matters, Argentina much resembles our 

 own country. Brazil is travelling a similar 

 path, although much more slowly; and al- 

 though its climate is not so good, its natural 

 resources are vaster and will in the present 

 century undergo an extraordinary development. 

 Very much of the Brazihan country from Sao 

 Paulo to the Uruguayan frontier is essentially 

 like Argentina. The city life and the ranch 

 life are advancing in much the same fashion; 

 although of course there are sharp differences 

 in culture and habits of thought and life be- 

 tween the great Spanish-speaking and great 

 Portuguese-speaking republics which are such 

 close, and not wholly friendly, neighbors. 



One point of similarity is the number of im- 

 migrants in each country. In our journey 

 southward from Sao Paulo we found both towns 



