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please the unthinking ear, but it is not a fact that 

 can satisfy the reason. 



This relative superiority and inferiority of the 

 varieties of mankind is so obvious, that it need not be 

 further dwelt upon, unless to show that as the White 

 man advances and spreads over the continents of the 

 world, one of two things must follow — ^viz. either 

 the coloured and inferior races will be absorbed into 

 his race and partake of his improvement, or in time 

 be utterly extinguished. Looking at the whole history 

 of mankind, so far as history throws any light on the 

 matter, this has been the unfailing course of events — 

 the superior races advancing, and absorbing the inferior 

 races where in any way closely related, and extirpating 

 them where the difference was so great as to prevent 

 interfusions and amalgamations. And even at the 

 present day and under our own eyes, we have the 

 most 'ample confirmation of this invariable method of 

 nature in the fact that in the same continent and 

 among the same race the higher nationalities are 

 gradually absorbing the lower, and that the White 

 man is gradually extirpating the American Indian, 

 the Tasmanian, Australian, and all inferior varieties, 

 wherever he plants himself, and carries along with 

 him the adjuncts of his superior civilisation. Speaking 

 of the relative positions of the races — white, black, 

 red, and yellow — in North America, a recent writer 



