368 DAVENPORT— EFFECTS OF RACE INTERMINGLING. 



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 formed that are better than the old ones ; also others that are worse. 



If selective annihilation is permitted to do its beneficent work, then 

 the worse combinations will tend to die off early. If now new inter- 

 mixing is stopped and eugenical mating ensues, consciously or un- 

 consciously, especially in the presence of inbreeding, strains may 

 arise that are superior to any that existed in the unhybridized races. 

 This, then, is the hope for our country; if immigration is restricted, 

 if selective elimination is permitted, if the principle of the inequality 

 of generating strains be accepted and if eugenical ideals prevail in 

 mating, then strains with new and better combinations of traits 

 may arise and our nation take front rank in culture among the 

 nations of ancient and modern times. 



Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., 

 April 13, 1917. 



