120 NATURA ^ HISTORY OF 



and substance of a durable intermediate race can be 

 reared. 



When the case is referred to Mongolic blood, placed 

 in similar circumstances, or when merely kept approach- 

 ing to equal proportions with that of a Caucasian or 

 Ethiopian stock, or even with any very aberrant, the 

 effect would be the same. If the moral and instinc- 

 tive impulses of the beardless stock be taken into 

 account, they will be found to operate with a singularly 

 repulsive tendency. Where the two types come in 

 contact, it produces war, ever aiming, on the Mongolic 

 side, at extermination, and in peace striving at an 

 absolute exclusion of all intercourse with races typically 

 distinct. In the wildest conquering inundations, lust 

 itself obeying its impulses only by a kind of necessity ; 

 myriads of slaves carried off and embodied, still pro- 

 duce only a very gradual influence upon the normalisms 

 of the typical form, and passing into absorption by 

 certain external appearances, with very faint steps. * 



War and slavery seem to have been, and still are, 

 the great elements, perhaps the only direct agents, to 

 produce amalgamation of the typical stocks, without 

 which no permanent progress in the path of true 

 civilization is made. From war has resulted the inter- 

 mediate races of man, in the regions where the typical 



* This aversion to interunion with the bearded races is 

 a result of experience, proving the superior activity of those 

 who have sprung from such races, and become conquerors. 

 Oenghiz, Timur, and Nadir Shah, were directly, or in their 

 ancestry, descended from Caucasian mothers; and hence, 

 also the jealous exclusion of European women from China. 



