THE TREND OF EVOLUTION 175 



However, with increasing means of communication, and as 

 a result of migration and commercial relations, there is no 

 longer complete geographical isolation of any people and the 

 various races of mankind are being brought into closer and 

 ever closer contact. Man is now engaged in undoing the work 

 of hundreds of centuries; if in the beginning God "made of 

 one blood all nations of men," it is evident that man is now 

 making of all nations one blood. In the United States prac- 

 tically all the races of mankind are represented and a study of 

 the census returns shows that all the European races in this 

 country are being rapidly fused together. Pearl has recently 

 shown that from u one fourth to one half as many children are 

 produced in a given year from mixed matings (in which one 

 partner is American) as from strictly American-born persons. 

 Amalgamation of the immigrant elements into the previously 

 existing complex is certainly going on apace." 



The "typical American" is the product of the fusion of 

 various European races and we, at least, believe that the re- 

 sults of such race mixtures are good. Even European races 

 are rarely if ever pure, but represent mixtures of many dif- 

 ferent stocks. If "pure" English, Irish, Scotch, Dutch, Ger- 

 man, Russian, French, Spanish, or Italian lines are traced 

 back only a few generations they are found to include many 

 foreign strains. The author of Robinson Crusoe wrote two 

 centuries ago of the "True-born Englishman" : 



These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, 

 And rail at new-come foreigners so much; 

 Forgetting that themselves are all derived 

 From the most scoundrel race that ever lived; 

 A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones 

 Who ransacked kingdoms, and dispeopled towns; 

 The Pict, and painted Briton, treach'rous Scot, 

 By hunger, theft, and rapine, hither brought; 



