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ply rapidly. The savage races are vastly superior in 

 their rapidity of multiplication to the civilized races; 

 they sometimes produce children at the age of twelve 

 years, or even younger, and the rapidity of reproduc- 

 tion found among the savage races is not equaled by 

 any civilized race in existence. But this enormous 

 power of reproduction does not enable them to pre- 

 serve their families or their tribes against the 

 inroads of the more slowly reproducing civilized 

 men. It is a combination of all these factors, 

 together with many others, that has determined the 

 survival of the individual, the family, or the race. 

 The one who succeeds in this long struggle for exist- 

 ence with his fellow man is the one who combines a 

 series of factors that enables him to overcome his 

 foes and reproduce himself with sufficient rapidity, 

 and in rearing offspring that will take his place at 

 his death. 



The most potent factor in this contest has been the 

 power of concentration, organization, and union. 

 Where intelligence comes in contact with ignorance, 

 or great fertility with a less reproductive power, the 

 victor has always been the united family or race, and 

 the vanquished has been the one incapable of organ- 

 ization and union. The savages who have simply 

 been capable of hanging together in groups of fifty or 

 one hundred have gradually been driven from all the 

 good parts of the earth, and either exterminated or 

 forced to find their way by migration into the poorer 

 and poorer territories, until they are finally crowded 

 off into the southern extremities of the continents, 

 into the almost uninhabited regions of the north, or 

 on a few of the oceanic islands still left to them. 

 Inevitably they are doomed to complete extermina- 



