THE INFLUENCE OF HYBRIDITY. 101 



By reason of these laws, we find that nowhere can a medium 

 race either establish itself on the ruins of two creating races, 

 or replace them, and live by itself with an independent exist- 

 ence, formed entirely of hybrids which propagate among them- 

 selves. In fact we have laid down a rule that conditions of 

 development are very much restricted among hybrids, and that 

 they can only go on decreasing in their descendants, if they 

 are capable of producing any. The crossed race will only 

 exist in the condition of being supported by the two creating 

 types remaining in the midst of it. If the value of this law 

 is only deduced from a negative fact, that is to say, from the 

 absence on the surface of the globe of any real hybrid race 

 existing by itself on a certain extent of territory, we shall 

 find, as regards the second, a great number of positive facts. 



When two types unite, we said, a double phenomenon may 

 be observed ; either of these two types will absorb the other, 

 or they may subsist simultaneously, one near the other. The 

 first case ought to be the most frequent ; but it is the least 

 appreciable, because it does not leave sensible traces. We 

 must endeavour to discover in history the remains of a people 

 who formerly existed, and who have since disappeared. Thus, 

 the colony of Nubians, taken to the banks of the Phasis by 

 Ramases, have left no trace of their sojourn among the in- 

 habitants of the land. It is the same with the Greek colonies 

 of the Mediterranean coasts.* The Normans have only left, 

 on the coasts of Labrador, their engraved stelce;-f their race 

 has not remained. The primitive Turkish and Asiatic type 

 has likewise disappeared from Europe. This has been attributed 

 to the introduction of Georgian women into the seraglios, and it 

 is, perhaps, a reason only too readily accepted. It is, indeed, 

 very natural that the repeated introduction of Georgian and Cir- 

 cassian women into the harems should deprive the descendants of 

 the conquerors of their original characteristics ; but if this were 

 the case, the Turks of our days would, from continued unions with 



* Latham thinks, however, that he has discovered some vestiges of the 

 Phosnician race in Africa and Cornwall. Compare Knox, The Races of Men, 

 1850. 



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