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hesitation," says a Transatlantic writer,* who has 

 had ample opportunities of studying the results of ad- 

 mixture in the New World, " that the wide physical, 

 intellectual, and moral differences which all history 

 and observation have distinguished as existing be- 

 tween the various families of man, can be no longer 

 regarded as the consequences of accident or of cir- 

 cumstances ; that is to say, it has come to be under- 

 stood that their physical, moral, and intellectual 

 traits are radical and permanent, and that there can 

 be no admiKture of widely-separated families, or of 

 superior with inferior races, which can be harmonious, 

 or otherwise than disastrous in its consequences. 

 Anthropological science has determined the existence 

 of two laws of vital importance in their application 

 to man and nations. First, That in all cases where a 

 free amalgamation takes place between two different 

 stocks, unrestrained by what is sometimes called pre- 

 judice, but which is ia fact a natural instinct, the 

 result is the final and absolute absorption of one in 

 the other. This absorption is more rapid as the 

 races or families thus brought in contact approximate 

 in type, and in proportion as one or the other pre- 

 ponderates in numbers ; that is to say, Nature per- 

 petuates no human hybrids, as for instance a permanent 

 race of mulattoes. Second, That all violations of the 



• Notes on Central America. By E. G. Squier. Boston, 1855. 



