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man, but have uniformly been driven, as he ad- 

 vanced, farther and farther into the wilderness, and 

 been reduced in numbers, and will probably become 

 shortly extinct. Unlike the Negro they cannot exist 

 in a state of servitude ; they must live like the 

 wild animal of the forest or must perish. 



Wherever we direct our eyes we are unable to 

 discover either in Asia, Africa, or in any savage life, 

 any equality with the European, or germs of a nature 

 capable of attaining to the same height. It is boot- 

 less to try to trace how it is composed or from 

 whence it came. We may have originally been 

 Aryans, or Caucasians, or derived from any other 

 stock, or combination of different stocks, but it is 

 quite clear that we are at this moment the dominant 

 race in the World. Our superiority was visible 

 from the earliest appearance of the race in the 

 records of history. When the Greeks first en- 

 countered Darius at? Marathon, and Xerxes at Ther- 

 mopylae and Salamis, the same superiority of nature 

 was apparent as when Olive, with his handful of 

 Europeans and Sepoys, defeated the hosts of Surajah 

 Dowlah, and founded our Indian Empire. When 

 Alexander the Great led his victorious bands from 

 the shores of the Mediterranean to the centre of 



