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and ever assuming fairer and nobler proportions. 

 And as with nationalities, so with varieties in a 

 broader sense ; the recent and superior will ever'spread, 

 the earlier and inferior must coincidently dwindle 

 away before them. Bound by the obligations of 

 enlightened humanity, the white man may and must 

 endeavour to civilise and ameliorate the condition of 

 his less enlightened and coloured brethren; but no 

 humanising scheme, however anxious or earnest, can 

 ever arrest that law which has destined the progression 

 of the human race — the extinction of the inferior, and 

 the rise and spread of the higher varieties. Humanly 

 speaking, it is only in this way that the progressive 

 advancement of mankind can ever be attained ; 

 rationally, it is the only method the human mind can 

 comprehend and appreciate. 



It is in vain to talk, as some well-meaning but 

 sadly-misinformed men often do, of the civilising and 

 ameliorating influences of admixture and amalgam- 

 ation. There can be no permanent amalgamation 

 of races that are widely different, no admixture of 

 superior and inferior types, which does not lead in the 

 long run either to the extinction of the inferior or to 

 the debasement of the superior. The whole testimony 

 of history — whatever it is worth — is against this 

 presumption, and our knowledge of all recent attempts 

 directly refutes it. "It may be claimed without 



