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Still, one should not be rejected because of some minor 

 conditions, provided the great outline characteristics are all 

 right. 



What Mental Traits Harmonize and Antago- 

 nize. Since the mind constitutes the man, nature must 

 make especial provision for its transmission ; hence, how- 

 ever important a right physical adaptation, a right mental 

 assimilation is far more so. Gender, too, inheres mainly 

 in the mind. Then what laws govern mental affilia- 

 tions ? 



Precisely those which govern physical. In their great 

 outline they must be substantially alike. Thus, a savage 

 and a civilized do not harmonize as well as two who are sav- 

 age, or two who are civilized. No instances of genuine 

 affection obtain among all the marriages of white men with 

 squaws, or African, or Malay woman, except where the lat- 

 ter have been first civilized. Could a bigoted heathen love a 

 bigoted Christian ? The more they set by their religion, 

 the less they would set by each other. Not only sliould a 

 Chinese marry a Chinese, a Turk a Turk, and a Christian a 

 Christian, but those of the same Christian faith should marry 

 those of like tenets. Catholics, as such, naturally blend 

 with Catholics, and Protestants never with those of oppo- 

 site faith. That instance cannot be , cited in which an 

 extreme Catholic lives happily with an extreme Protestant. 

 Let all Catholics, all Protestants, attest whether they are not 

 instinctively drawn, other things the same, to those of their 

 own faith, but repelled from those who differ from them. 

 Each must attend their own church, which initiates a relig- 

 ious divorce, and this breeds separation on all other points, 

 besides each persisting that their children shall be educated 

 in their own faith, but not in that of the other. 



