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describes the superiority of the White in these truly 

 graphic and comprehensive terms: — "The White 

 Man, caring for neither frost nor fire, so long as he 

 can win good food for his mouth, fit clothing for his 

 limbs, appears to be master in every zone ; able to 

 endure all cUmates, to undertake aU labours, to over- 

 come all trials ; casting nets into the Bay of Fundy, 

 cradling gold in the Sacramento valleys, raising dates 

 and lemons in Florida, trapping beavers in Oregon, 

 raising herds of kine in Texas, spinning thread in 

 Massachusetts, clearing wood in Kansas, smelting iron 

 in Pennsylvania, talking buncombe in Columbia, 

 writing leaders in New York. He is the man of 

 plastic genius, of enduring character ; equally at home 

 among the palm-trees and the pines ; in every latitude 

 the guide, the employer, and the king of all."* 



Reasoning from what we know of the existing 

 varieties of mankind and the tribes and nationalities 

 embraced by these varieties, it may be logically in- 

 ferred that the Caucasian or White man has been 

 preceded by the Mongol, Eed Indian, and Malay, 

 and that these in turn were preceded by the Ethiopian 

 or Negro. As the White men of the American States 

 are the immediate descendants of the nations of 

 Western Europe, and as these nations were descended 

 in turn from more Oriental stocks, so clearly must the 



Dixon's New America, 1867, vol. i. p. 14. , 



