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of the Atlantic Ocean, The Dravidian type of Indian in its lowest 

 form almost links on to the Australian, and thereby to that 

 fundamental primitive human stock from which the Negro also 

 sprang. The result of intermixture past and present between the 

 Mediterranean type or the Dravidian, direct from India, with the 

 Negro has produced exceedingly good results in physical develop- 

 ment. It has brought beauty in varying degrees to the Negro, 

 who in his unmixed type is usually a hideous creature. So 

 inveterate have been the permeations of Caucasian blood through 

 Negro Africa that only the Congo Pygmies and a few forest 

 tribes in Equatorial West Africa and the desert peoples of South- 

 west Africa can be described as pure Negroes, and consequently 

 hideous. Near as the Libyans of North Africa are to the 

 Iberians of the Spanish Peninsula or the Southern Italians, there 

 is just that extra drop of Dravidian blood in their veins that 

 causes them to fuse with the Negro and produce a satisfactory 

 hybrid so far as the human animal is concerned. Most mulattoes 

 of Portuguese parentage are feebler in race than are the cross- 

 breeds produced by the Spaniard, because the average Portuguese 

 (except in the Algarve) contains more Northern, Aryan blood in 

 his veins than does the average Spaniard. French and English 

 hybrids with the Negro are still less satisfactory from the point 

 of view of physique. But the cross between the northern white 

 man and the Negro rises far higher intellectually than does the 

 cross with Arab, Libyan, Hamite, or Indian. The Aryan mulatto 

 (so to speak) has usually a poor physique but a " white " braiii. 

 The future for the Mulatto will lie in two directions. He must 



1 There are exceptions to every rule, and there are isolated instances of 

 fine-looking men and women in different parts of America who are apparently pro- 

 ducts of the cross between the northern white man and the Negro. But very often if 

 the past history of these exceptional individuals was inquired into it would be 

 found that the Negress mother was not a pure Negress, but of Fula or Mandingo 

 stock — that is to say, already partly mixed with Caucasian blood. 



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