1 50 DAR WIN ISM AND RA CE PROGRESS. 



Can we wonder that British necessity has over- 

 matched French vanity? One cannot read the 

 accounts of the struggle between the British and 

 French in North America, antecedent to the War of 

 Independence, without feeling that from the first the 

 issue was certain. The French, who took the palm 

 in enterprise and exploration, were nevertheless 

 rapidly outnumbered by the British settlers, who 

 crowded out of their own congested country into the 

 new land, and increased there with enormous rapidity, 

 the population doubling during the period of fifteen 

 years in many districts. 



It is in their relative fertility by the side of the 

 French that the English-speaking race, at first a 

 smaller people, have now far outnumbered their 

 Gaelic neighbours, and have peopled the choicest 

 portions of the inhabitable world, and formed 

 dominions by the side of which France is already 

 becoming a small and unimportant province. 



Possible Swamping cf the Capables by the 

 Incapables. 



We have here, then, a demonstration of the effects 

 of diminishing the fertility of a group of persons, and, 

 returning once more to a consideration of the relative 

 infertility of the upper classes in our own country, we 

 cannot doubt that, if the present tendencies continue, 



