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proper culture, the Apache should not become a useful 

 member of society. I see no apparent reason the wolf 

 should not become as domestic as the dog. But he won't. 

 The reason is a mental difference. Therein is the root of 

 endless misunderstandings, of mutual injustice, between 

 the races. But if the earth was made for man to increase 

 and multiply thereon, and have possession, as it requires a 

 greater number of square miles to support one Apache 

 than a square mile will support civilised families, his ex- 

 tinction is justified by the inevitable logic of the fitness of 

 things. He cannot be developed into a civilised man ; he 

 must give place to him. Circumstances and early training 

 will sometimes make a white boy into a first-rate savage, 

 but that is no argument to prove the converse, only a case 

 of reversion. Our remote ancestors were painted savages. 

 The cleverest collie is a descendant of dogs that lived like 

 wolves and foxes. Every country has, perhaps, had its 

 true wild men tribes incapable of civilisation ; some 

 countries have them yet. Every country, sooner or later, 

 has its civilised races, sometimes historically known to be 

 immigrant ones; sometimes, presumably, of an equal an- 

 tiquity of location to the wild ones near them. Mexico is 

 a case in point. The Conquistador es found in that country 

 an ancient, highly-developed, apparently indigenous civili- 

 sation, with a most complete system of government and 

 taxation; an established state religion, a thorough organi- 

 sation of classes, an elaborate school of manners and 

 etiquette; a civilisation, in some respects, superior to their 

 own; and in the same country wild, nearly naked savage 

 tribes, equally indigenous the Apaches of then and 



