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mulatto family does, or could exist, in any part of the tropics, 

 continued to a fourth generation, from one stock : perhaps 

 there is not even one of five generations of positive mulattoes 

 (hybrids in the first degree), from difTen ;it parents, but that all 

 actually require, for continuity at least, a long previous succes- 

 sion of foreign influences of white or negro, mestise, quar- 

 troon, sambo, native Indian, or Malay blood, before the sinew 

 and substance of a durable intermediate race can be reared. 



When the case is referred to Mongolic blood, placed in simi- 

 lar circumstances, or when merely kept approaching 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 instinctive 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 em- 

 bodied, still producing 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 amalgama- 

 tion of the typical stocks, without which no permanent progress 

 in the path of true civilization is made. From war has resulted 

 the intermediate races of man, in the regions where the typical 



Laving borne a mulatto child, is ever after the mother of a black ! She 

 becomes, they say, in that respect, sterile. But surely this must be very 

 doubtful, although our researches do not invalidate the assertion. 



* This aversion to interunion with the bearded races is a result of 

 experience, proving the superior activity of those who have sprung from 

 iuch races, and become conquerors. Genghiz, 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. 



