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The Journal of Heredity 



"Whatever we may do to check fur- 

 ihrr disastrous type mixtures, our 

 (lisachantageous start in this matter is 

 bound to atYcct our future i)osition with 

 respect to both Germany and the Eng- 

 Hsh-speaking peoples. Vet a<j;ainst these 

 racially and socially disquieting influ- 

 ences, the United States still has Aryan' 

 x'alues as cflectix'c as those of any inheri- 

 tor of England's widely distributed 

 legacy. Those early stocks were of the 

 sort of genetic material to build a great 

 republic. What if they did not fore- 

 see our careless invitation to peoples who 

 could never respond harmoniously to 

 their lofty ideal of culture? They 

 thought that this was to be a land for 

 their children's children, and they did 

 their best to carry out the idea by follow- 

 ing the Biblical injunction to the people 

 of the earth. They were prolific; their 

 increase overflowed westward again and 

 again, as far as the Pacific coast, and 

 their descendants in turn, effectively 

 mingled with the sturdy product of the 

 earlier migrations from northern Euroj^e. 

 have endowed this coimtr\- with a fund 

 of genetic values that needs only to be 

 m.aintained — even in its i)resent propor- 

 tion — to insure permanence to the most 

 fortunately situated people on earth. 

 But to hold these values to their present 

 proportion is the most difficult order ever 

 put up to the American people. 



Canada's advantages 



"Of the other li)nglish-si)eaking coun- 

 tries, Canada is a land of material 

 oi^jjortunities comjjarable in many re- 

 sjx'cts with our own. Racially she has 

 the advantage of us in the purity of her 

 British-descended stocks, and in the 

 l^rospect of continuing that purity if she 

 lias the wisdom to choose to do .so. The 

 cloud on her racial horizon is her legacy 

 of original French stocks, which {)ersist 

 in remaining at a genetic and cultural 

 level below that of the dominant Eng- 

 lish-speaking population. They may 

 lill a worthy j)lace in Canada's economic 

 scheme, but they do not furnish their 

 ])ro])ortion to the essential ability of 



Canada's people, and to that e.\tent arc 

 a hindrance to her racial future. 



" But in Canada, as with us, the vStar 

 of luiipire has mo\-ed westward; and in 

 that great W^est is the purest and best 

 of her Aryan inheritances, needing, as 

 ours, only to be perpetuated to make of 

 Canada one of the great peoples of the 

 world. 



"The racial difllculties of South Africa 

 do not augur well for her j^lace among 

 the English-speaking communities of the 

 future. Her dominant people have dis- 

 l)layed an admirable comprehension of 

 race values in attempting to stay the 

 almost ovenvhelming flood of inferior 

 stocks, but the odds against them are so 

 immense that nothing short of revolu- 

 tionary tactics will save South Africa 

 for a great Aryan future. 



"The pure white of India is an exotic, 

 and can never be anything else. Neither 

 India nor any tropical country has 

 an Aryan future. The beautifully mys- 

 tical culture of India is essentially non- 

 Aryan, and is not under discussion. 



"In Australia and New Zealand we 

 come again to lands brilliant in i:)romise 

 of a great future for the English-speak- 

 ing Aryan. Both have their race prob- 

 lems, and both are meeting them with 

 conspicuous intelligence. Countries of 

 dimensions so magnificent, with resources 

 scarcely touched and peopled by British 

 stocks still in the full vigor of youth, 

 have only to conserve the one and ade- 

 cjuatel)' perpetuate the other to make 

 sure of a future well out into the un- 

 known that lies ahead of us all. 



"The United States, Canada, Aus- 

 tralia, New Zealand — four young giants 

 of the earth, growing and with abun- 

 dant resources for further growth. 

 Were these four, with England as their 

 mutual bond, joined in singleness of pur- 

 jKxse to carry forward to still greater 

 achievement the humane culture thatdis- 

 tingui.shes the iilnglish-siieaking Aryan, 

 who could eflectually set up against 

 them? Germany has youth, but it is 

 the youth that compares well with the 

 old age about her. not with these four 



* It is unfortunate thai .Mr. Iluniplircys could not bring himself to give up the idea of an 

 Aryan race, which lias long been abandoned by ethnologists. When he says Ar>'an he usually 

 means Nordic. — The Editor. 



