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less the South Sea Islander, and least of all the Negro, 

 the capacity to comprehend the principles which enter 

 into the higher order of civil and political organi- 

 sations ; his instincts and his habits are inconsistent 

 with their development, and no degree of education 

 can teach him to understand and practise them." 



"To the understanding of intelligent and 



reflecting men, who are superior to the partisan and 

 sectional issues of the hour," he continues, " these 

 considerations cannot faU to appeal with controlling 

 force j for if the United States, as compared with the 

 Spanish American republics, has achieved an im- 

 measurable advance in all the elements of greatness, 

 that result is eminently due to the rigid and inex- 

 orable refusal of the dominant Teutonic stock to 

 debase its blood, impair its intellect, lower its moral 

 standard, or peril its institutions, by intermixture with 

 the inferior and subordinate races of man. In obe- 

 dience to the ordinances of Heaven, it has rescued 

 half a continent from savage beasts and stUl more 

 savage men, whose period of existence has terminated, 

 and who must give place to higher organisations and 

 a superior life. Short-sighted philanthropy may 

 lament, and sympathy drop a tear as it looks forward 

 to the total disappearance of the lower forms of 

 humanity, but the laws of Nature are irreversible — 

 it is the wiU of God ! " 



