302 National Life and Character 



black, red, and yellow nations, when thus freed, 

 will threaten the dominance of the higher peoples, 

 possibly by military, certainly by industrial, rivalry, 

 and that the mere knowledge of the equality of these 

 stocks will cow and dispirit the higher races. 



This part of his argument is open to very serious 

 objections. In the first place, Mr. Pearson entirely 

 fails to take into account the difference in character 

 among the nationalities produced in the tropics as 

 the result of European conquest. In Asia, doubt- 

 less, the old races now submerged by European 

 predominance will reappear, profoundly changed in 

 themselves, and in their relations to one another, 

 but as un-European as ever, and not appreciably 

 affected by any intermixture of European blood. 

 In Africa, the native States will probably range 

 somewhere between the Portuguese half-caste and 

 quarter-caste communities now existing on certain 

 of the tropic coasts, and pastoral or agricultural 

 communities, with a Mohammedan religious cult 

 and Asiatic type of government, produced by the 

 infusion of a conquering Semitic or hamitic caste on 

 a conquered negro people. There may be a dominant 

 caste of European blood in some of these States, 

 but that is all. In tropical America, the change has 

 already taken place. The States that there exist 

 will not materially alter their form. It is possible 

 that here and there populations of Chinese, pure 

 or half-caste, or even of coolies, may spring up ; but 

 taken as a whole, these States will be in the future 

 what they are now, that is, they will be by blood 



