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CHAPTER VI. 



THE HUMAN RACE. 



IN view of the homology throughout Nature, 

 it may be assumed that the experience in 

 breeding cattle would, under corresponding 

 conditions, be repeated in the human race, 

 and in that case it would follow- 

 That the species Homo sapiens is not de- 

 scended from a single pair of ancestors, 

 but is composed of many distinct races ; 

 and 



That intermarriage between two races will 

 not, without the intermixture of pure 

 blood, produce a permanent stock. 

 We may thus understand why there are 

 no mongrel descendants beyond the first 

 or second generation of Eurasians in India, 

 or of mulattoes in the United States. If 

 mulattoes married whites, they might ulti- 

 mately become absorbed in the white popu- 

 lation, but this is doubtful. 



It has been stated that octoroons die at an 



