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that element of stability is removed it will 

 collapse like those of Greece and Rome. I 

 venture to assert, then, that the struggle for 

 existence between white and red man, painful 

 and even terrible as it was in its details, has 

 given us a good far outbalancing its immediate 

 evil. In place of the red man, contributing 

 practically nothing to the work and thought 

 of the world, we have a great nation, mistress 

 of many arts, and able, with its youthful im- 

 agination and fresh, untrammelled impulses, to 

 contribute much to the common stock of civil- 

 ized man. Against that we have only to put 

 the romantic sympathy for the Red Indian 

 generated by the novels of Cooper and the 

 poems of Longfellow, and then see how 

 little it weighs in the balance ! * 



But America is but one case in which we 

 have to mark a masterful human progress 

 following an inter-racial struggle. The Aus- 

 tralian nation is another case of great civil- 

 ization supplanting a lower race unable to work 

 to the full the land and its resources. Further 

 back in history you find the same tale with 

 almost every European nation. Sometimes 

 when the conquering race is not too diverse 



