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skinned people of the East. In support of that opinion 

 may be cited the fact that some of " the first families of 

 Virginia" are proud of their descent from Pocahontes, 

 the Algonkian " Princess " who married the Englishman 

 Rolfe. In New Zealand there are many families of mixed 

 Anglo-Saxon and Maori blood. Though they are not 

 ostracized, as are the half-breeds of negro blood in the 

 United States, there is a firm tendency to relegate the 

 half-breeds in New .Zealand to the Maori section of the 

 population, which it must be remembered includes some 

 of the richest and most prosperous landowners in the 

 colony. 



It may be questioned whether there is in this matter 

 a greater " pride of race " among Anglo-Saxons than 

 among other Northern European peoples. Neither the 

 French nor the Germans have established great colonies 

 like the English, nor undertaken the administration of 

 a huge Eastern Empire, and have, therefore, not shown 

 what attitude they would adopt under such circumstances. 

 The tolerance and easy-going humanitarianism of the 

 French in relation to "miscegenation" in their depen- 

 dencies in past times has never had the significance or 

 practical importance which it would have possessed in 

 the English Colonies and in the great Indian Empire. 



There is, on account of the sporadic and exceptional 

 occurrence of modern instances, no information of any 

 value as to the results of mixture of other races of man. 

 In early times and among more primitive or less civilized 

 peoples there appears to have been, when immigration 

 or conquest gave the opportunity, no obstacle to a free 

 intermixture of an incoming race with the natives of an 

 invaded territory. The " pride of race " has, nevertheless, 

 throughout historic time been a frequent factor in the 

 adjustment of populations of diverse races, and though 

 "colour" has been a frequent "test" or symbol of the 



