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alcoholism, and other irregularities. The cases I have seen 

 have been mostly acute mania, of a religious type. Dr. 

 Powell states that he has never seen a case of paresis in the 

 negro. I have seen several cases of epileptic imbecility among 

 them. Hysteria is common among the women, and the most 

 typical cases of hystero-epilepsy I have ever seen, three in all, 

 if my memory serves me, were among the colored. The emo- 

 tional side of the negro is pronounced ; you see it in all their 

 gatherings, especially the camp-meetings, where many work 

 themselves up into a religious frenzy. 



Speaking of miscegenation I wrote in my first paper : It 

 would be an interesting point to know the percentage of this 

 mixed-element to the pure African. I am persuaded that it is 

 much larger than generally believed. The census unfortu- 

 nately has made no distinction in the enumeration. It is, how- 

 ever, a distinction which should be made, and any correct re- 

 turns would point to many significant tendencies, and be a 

 poiyit d' appui for our argument. This mixed-element indicates 

 the fusion and assimilation going on. That it bears the same 

 social stigma as the darker color shows that the barrier be- 

 tween the races is a social but not a physiological one, for 

 underneath this barrier miscegenation goes on through many 

 channels. This new product is a large one though it is large- 

 ly unstable. 



Miscegenation will go on in the future as it has gone on 

 in the past. Its illegality will be no bar to it, though the 

 process of fusion may be retarded. To my mind race predju- 

 dice will not be in the years to come what it has been or what 

 it now is. Time alone, throwing the days of bondage further 

 back into the past, will in itself modify and soften these feel- 

 ings of race, especially when, by the gradual fusion, the color 

 will become lighter and the mixed-element will exhibit qual- 

 ities allying it more and more to the Caucasian. It will not 

 be in our day, of course, nor in the next generation ; it may 

 take centuries, but it will come." 



The question whether the mere mixing of the races in 

 itself results in an unstable product is one which I have 

 not been able to answer to my own satisfaction. My 



