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man who marries an Englishwoman is 

 more Hkely (all other factors being 

 equal) to perpetuate the most desirable 

 traits and traditions of his people. The 

 large "half-white" population that has 

 sprung up wherever the white man has 

 gone among dark-skinned peoples testi- 

 fies to the enormous squandering of the 

 hereditary physical, psychic, and racial 

 traits of the North European. 



The author's mature conclusion, after 



a decade of intensive observation in 

 Hjawaii's microcosmic melting-pot, is 

 that biological race mingling is desirable 

 only when it is identified with normal 

 Christian home life, and only when the 

 contracting parties are superior speci- 

 mens of their respective racial types. 

 Most biologic race-mingling, throughout 

 all history, has occurred under condi- 

 tions which have heavily discounted the 

 eugenic value of such mingling. 



