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of Northern and Western Europe : but everywhere in the British. 

 Isles, and througliout Western Europe, the Melanochroic elements 

 stand out distinctly from the predominant Xanthocroic stock, among 

 peoples speaking a common language, and unconscious of any diversity 

 of race. Here then we see evidences of the intermingling, and the 

 partial absorption of the dark Australioid by the later Xanthocroi, 

 the product of which survives in the Melanochroi of Bn'tain, France, 

 Germany, Spain, and Italy. In Britain the contrasting characteristics 

 of the diverse ethnical elements attracted the attention of Tacitus in 

 the first century of our era. In Spain the Iberian still preserves the 

 evidence of an individuality apart from the Indo-European races in 

 the vernacular Euskara, while a large Moorish element in the Southern 

 portion of the Peninsula perpetuates the results of another foreign 

 intrusion within historic times. 



The diversity apparent in the results of the meetiirg of dissimilar 

 races in the Old World and the New, is due to the geographical 

 characteristics of the two hemispheres. Alike by sea and land, 

 Europe could be entered by invading colonists, gradually, and at 

 many diverse points. Hence, the aggression of the higher races may 

 be assumed to have begun, while the difference between them and 

 the aborigines of Europe was much less than that which distinguishes 

 the European from the Red Indian savage. The conquest would 

 thus be protracted over a period, probably of many generations, and 

 so would involve no such violent collisions as inevitably result in the 

 destruction of savage races when brought into abrupt contact with 

 those far advanced in civilization. 



But the peculiar relations of the frontier populations of the New 

 World, and especially of the factors, trappers, and voyageurs of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, with the native American tribes, have 

 helped to create a partial equality between the civilized European 

 and the savage ; and so, to some extent, to beget results akin to those 

 which have left such enduring evidences of the mingling of diverse 

 races in the population of modern Europe. 



This accordingly suggests a question affecting the whole relations 

 of British and European colonists generally to the native population 

 •of new lands settled and colonized by them. Not only English, 

 Scotch and Irish, but German, Norwegian, Icelandic, French, Polish, 

 Russian and Italian emigrants flock in hundreds and thousands to 

 the New World, merge in a single generation in the common stock, 



