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solutions are prepared for the future. Such 

 problems in suspense, it appears to me, are 

 to be found in the negro population of the 

 Southern States of America, in the large ad- 

 mixture of Indian blood in some of the South 

 American races, but, above all, in the Kaffir 

 factor in South Africa. 



You may possibly think that I am straying 

 from my subject, but I want to justify natural 

 selection to you. I want you to see selection 

 as something which renders the inexorable 

 law of heredity a source of progress which' 

 produces the good through suffering, an in- 

 finitely greater good which far outbalances the 

 very obvious pain and evil. Let us suppose 

 the alternative were possible. Let us suppose 

 we could prevent the white man, if we liked, 

 from going to lands of which the agricul- 

 tural and mineral resources are not worked 

 to the full ; then I should say a thousand 

 times better for him that he should not go 

 than that he should settle down and live 

 alongside the inferior race. The only healthy 

 alternative is that he should go and com- 

 pletely drive out the inferior race. That is 

 practically what the white man has done in 



