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not occur until the lapse of seventy-one years. Social selection at 
that rate would be bound to produce very positive results in a cen- 
tury or two. 
At the outset, confession was made that it was too early as yet to 
draw positive conclusions as to the probable outcome of this great 
ethnic struggle for dominance and survival. The great heat and 
sweat of it is yet to come. Wherever the Anglo-Saxon has fared 
forth into new lands, his supremacy in his chosen field, whatever 
that may be, has been manfully upheld. India was never contem- 
plated as a center for settlement, but Anglo-Saxon law, order, and 
civilization have prevailed. In Australia, where nature has offered 
inducements for actual colonization, the Anglo-Saxon line is ap- 
parently assured of physical ascendency. But the great domain of 
Canada—greater than one can conceive who has not traversed its 
northwestern empire—is subject to the same physical danger which 
confronts us in the United States, actual physical submergence of 
the English stock by a flood of continental European peoples. And 
yet, after all, is the word “ danger” well considered for use in this 
connection? What are the English people, after all, but a highly 
evolved product of racial breeding? To be sure, all the later crosses, 
the Saxons, Danes and Normans, have been of allied Teutonic origin 
at least. Yet encompassing these racial phenomena with the wide, 
sweeping vision of him in whose honor this address is rendered, dare 
we deny an ultimate unity of origin to all the people of Europe? Our 
feeble attempts at ethnic analysis can not at the best reach further 
back than to secondary origin. And the primary physical brother- 
hood of all branches of the white race, nay, I will go even further 
and say of all the races of men, must be admitted on faith—not on 
the faith of dogma but on the faith of scientific probability. It is 
only in their degree of physical and mental evolution that the races 
of men are different. You have your “ white man’s burden ” to bear 
in India; we have ours to bear with the American negro and the 
Filipinos. But an even greater responsibility with us and with our 
Canadian fellow-citizens is that of the “Anglo-Saxon’s burden ”—to 
so nourish, uplift, and inspire all these immigrant peoples of Europe 
that in due course of time, even if the physical stock be inundated 
by the engulfing flood, the torch of Anglo-Saxon civilization and 
ideals, borne by our fathers from England to America, shall yet burn 
as bright and clear in the New World, as your fires have continued to 
illuminate the Old. 
