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natural distinctions of race, or if those instincts which 

 ■were designed to perpetuate the superior races in 

 their purity, invariably entail the most deplorable 

 results, affecting the bodies, intellects, and moral per- 

 ceptions of the nations who are thus blind to the wise 

 designs of Nature and unmindful of her laws. In 

 other words; the offspring of such combinations or 

 amalgamations are not only generally deficient in 

 physical constitution, in intellect, and in moral 

 restraint, but to a degree which often contrasts un- 

 favourably with any of the original stocks. 



" In no respect are these deficiences more obvious 

 than in matters affecting government. We need only 

 point to the anarchical states of (Spanish America to 

 verify the truth of the propositions here laid down. 

 In Central and South America, and in Mexico, we find 

 a people not only demoralised from the unrestrained 

 association of different races, but also the superior 

 stocks becoming gradually absorbed in the lower, and 

 their institutions disappearing under the relative 

 barbarism of which the latter are the exponents. It 

 is impossible, while conceding all the influence which 

 can be rationally claimed for other causes, to resist 

 the conviction that the disasters which have befallen 

 these countries are due to a grand practical miscon- 

 ception of the just relations of the races which 

 compose them. The Indian does not possess, still 



