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barriers between them, come to Brazil. He cannot deny the 

 deterioration consequent upon the amalgamation of races, more 

 wide spread here than in any country in the world, and which is 

 rapidly effacing the best qualities of the white man, the negro, 

 and the Indian, leaving a mongrel, nondescript type, deficient in 

 physical and mental energy." 



Schultz in speaking of race mixture in Peru says, ''The degen- 

 eration there is even greater and has been more rapid than in 

 the other South American countries and the cause is the infusion 

 of Chinese blood into the veins of the white-negro-Indian com- 

 pound. There are scarcely any Indo-Europeans of pure blood in 

 Peru, for with the exception of pure Indians in the interior the 

 population consists of mestizos, Zambos, mulattoes, terceroons, 

 quadroons, cholos, musties, fustics and dusties; crosses between 

 Spaniards and Indians, Spaniards and negroes, Spaniards and 

 yellows; crosses between these people and the cholos, musties 

 and dusties; crosses between mongrels of one kind and mongrels 

 of other kinds. All kinds of cross breeds infest the land. The 

 result is incredible rottenness." In all the great South American 

 melting pot and also in Mexico and Central America we meet 

 with much the same situation. 



Schultz's book {Race or Mongrel?) is a plea for racial purity. 

 The downfall of nations which has been explained in so many 

 different ways is accounted for in this volume as a result of hy- 

 bridization. Greeks, Romans, Hindoos, Egyptians and Lom- 

 bards have all been destroyed by the admixture of foreign blood. 

 "Nature suffers no mongrel to live." Only the pure races thrive 

 and attain a high degree of development. 



Lapouge speaking of race crosses tells us that "En general, 

 les resultats de ces unions n'ont rien d'avantageux. Laideur, 

 vulgarite, manque de vigueur, moindre duree de vie, tares phys- 

 iques nombreuses, nos sang-meles ont tout contre eux." Mr. 

 Madison Grant in a recent work (The Passing of the Great Race) 

 which has attracted considerable attention, represents the racial 

 hybrid as no higher than the lower race from which he sprang. 

 "The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; 



