THE ANGLO-SAXOX AN^D THE WORLD'S FUTURE. ^3^33 



powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon 

 Central and South America, out upon the islands of 

 the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any 

 01^3 doubt that the result of this competition of races 

 Avill be the "survival of the fittest?" "Any people," 

 says Dr. Bushnell, " that is physiologically advanced 

 in culture, though it be only in a degree beyond another 

 which is mingled with it on strictly equal terms, is sure 

 to live down and finally live out its inferior. Nothing 

 can save the inferior race but a ready and pliant assimi- 

 lation. Whether the feebler and more abject races are 

 going to be regenerated and raised up, is already very 

 much of a question. What if it should be God's plan 

 to i'Cople the world with better and finer material? 

 " Certain it is, whatever expectations we may indulge, 

 that there is a tremendous overbearing surge of power 

 in the Christian nations, which, if the others are not 

 speedily raised to some vastly higher capacity, will 

 inevitably submerge and bury them forever. These 

 great populations of Christendom — what are they doing, 

 but throwing out their colonies on every side, and 

 populating themselves, if I may so speak, into the pos- 

 session of all countries and climes? " ^ To this result no 

 AA^ar of extermination is needful ; the contest is not one 

 of arms, but of vitalitj- and of civilization. ' ' At the 

 present day," says Mr. Darwin, "civilized nations are 

 everywhere supplanting barbarous nations, excepting 

 where the climate opposes a deadly barrier; and they 

 succeed mainly, though not exclusively, through their 

 arts, which are the products of the intellect." 2 Thus 

 the Finns were supplanted by the Aryan races in Europe 

 and Asia, the Tartars by the Eussians, and thus the' 

 aborigines of North America, Australia and New Zea- 

 land are now disappearing before the all-conquering 

 Anglo-Saxons. It seems as if these inferior tribes were 

 only precursors of a superior race, voices in the wilder- 



» Christian Nurture, pp. 2G7. 213. 

 ' Descent of Man, Vol. I. p. 154. 



