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districts infant mortality has hitherto been high. 

 In the cities where mixed bloods occur in large 

 number the constant accession of darker features 

 from the country may more than offset the rela- 

 tively slow infiltration of white blood. Moreover 

 the white population is so enormously greater 

 than the negro and has such great economic and 

 social advantages and there is such a widespread 

 and deep antipathy to the marriage of full-blooded 

 whites and "negroes" of any shade that it seems 

 highly improbable that the white population will 

 soon absorb the black population en masse. Hence 

 it seems unlikely that the average white man's 

 face a thousand years from now will show much 

 trace of negroid admixture in the United States as 

 a whole. In many parts of Africa, on the con- 

 trary, the whites are so far out-numbered and the 

 climatic conditions are so unfavorable that it 

 seems probable that a thousand years from now 

 the negro, with perhaps some infiltration of white 

 blood, will still be in the vast majority. Thus we 

 see at once that the average face of the future in 

 any given locality will naturally depend first of 

 all upon the relative increase of one or another 



racial type in the general population. 



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