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to the present. Lord Bryce's description of the Teutonic 

 objection to forming legal alliances with pure natives or 

 coloured people, in contrast to the willingness of the Latin 

 races, especially the Portuguese, to intermarry with them, 

 continues a much-discussed, but always important con- 

 troversy, as to which race this willingness to intermarry is 

 most beneficial to — 



(i) The European, his country, and his trade. 



(2) The native and the cross-breeds (mulattos, mestizos, 

 quadroons, and even the octoroons), and the tropical 

 country they inhabit. 



We are afraid, when looking backwards, that whilst 

 the Spaniards and Portuguese (that is, the Latins) can 

 claim the honour, thanks partly to Columbus (an Italian, 

 and therefore also a Latin), of discovering and European- 

 izing South America, other natons (i.e., the English, 

 Germans, and Americans) are the leading countries to-day, 

 and likely to remain so for many years to come. Would 

 it not therefore be right to deduce from this, that for sound, 

 practical, commercial, and empire-building reasons, the 

 intermarriage between white and coloured races is not to 

 be recommended, however freely the not doing so may 

 cause the white men to cohabit with native women when 

 in the Tropics. The " top-dog '' alone can cry out the 

 terms on which he is willing to live with the others ; and 

 whatever policy we would like, from a sentimental or 

 moral point of view, to see carried out, after carefully 

 studying both Lord Bryce's book on South America, and 

 Mr. Harris's on Equatorial Africa, one is bound to own 

 that the Teuton, possibly because he never has freely inter- 

 married with the native races, and been willing to live down 

 to their level, has come out, and is always likely to remain, 

 "top-dog" over the Latin races who have always lived on 

 the fringe of " coloured " countries, and even at times been 

 overrun and temporarily conquered by their inhabitants.' 



' The following extract from the paper read by Sir Bamfylde Fuller, 

 K.C.S.I., &c., on " The Purpose of Life in the East and in the West," 

 before the Royal Colonial Institute, is worth noting here, for he told his 

 audience that " the habits of the European peoples of the Mediterranean 

 appear to show that they owe their material civilization rather to 

 imitation than to their own initiative. They accept with contentedness 

 conditions which to us app-ar re|)ulsive ; they can enjoy life 

 independently of comfort and think more of their status than of their 

 possessions. Bound to Northern Europe by a similarity of religion, and 

 influenced in great measure by immigration from the North, they have 

 been drawn towards a similar set of material conditions. At the present 



