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more energetic, restless, and courageous men from all 

 parts of Europe have emigrated during the last ten or 

 twelve generations to that great country, and have there 

 succeeded best. Looking at the distant future, I do not 

 think that the Eev. Mr. Zincke takes an exaggerated 

 view when he says : ' All other series of events — as that 

 which resulted in the culture of mind in Greece, and 

 that which resulted in the Empire of Rome— only appear 

 to have purpose and value when viewed in connection 

 with, or rather as subsidiary to, the great stream of 

 Anglo-Saxon emigration to the West. ' " 



There is abundant reason to believe that the Anglo-Saxon 

 race is to be, is, indeed, already becoming, more effective 

 here than in the mother country. The marked superior- 

 ity of this race is due, in large measure, to its highly 

 mixed origin. Says Rawlinson: ^ "It is a general rule, 

 now almost universally admitted by ethnologists, that 

 the mixed races of mankind are superior to the pure 

 ones"; and adds: "Even the Jews, who are so often 

 cited as an example of a race at once pure and strong, 

 may, with more reason, be adduced on the opposite side 

 of the argument." The ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, 

 and the Romans, were all mixed races. Among modern 

 races, the most conspicuous example is afforded by the 

 Anglo-Saxons. Mr. Green's studies show that Mr. 

 Tennyson's poetic line, 



" Saxon and Norman and Dane are we," 



must be supplemented with Celt and Gaul, Welshman 

 and Irishman, Frisian and Flamand, French Huguenot 

 and German Palatine. What took place a thousand 

 years ago and more in England again transpires to-day 

 in the United States. " History repeats itself "; but, as 

 the wheels of history are the chariot wheels of the Al- 

 mighty, there is, with every revolution, an onward 

 movement toward the goal of His eternal purposes. 



1 Princeton Review, for November, 1878. 



