168 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



ond, third and even f onrtli generations. It 

 would be better, I thought, to substitute 

 new blood than to try to improve the old. 

 This would have been done had it not been 

 found that there was something in the na- 

 tive feed or climate that affected the health 

 of the imported horse. 



Certain families of men are like the Jap- 

 anese horse, — they have no elements capa- 

 ble of great improvement. The North 

 American Indian has had the advantage of 

 civilization for three hundred years. He 

 will not civilize. The pure blood has made 

 no improvement. In talent, the Indian of 

 today is no better than when Columbus vis- 

 ited this country. 



The African, lifted bodily from his native 

 habitat and set in ci\dlized surroundings, 

 has made in elements of worth no improve- 

 ment. Without the infusion of talented 

 blood, he has stood still. The pure-blooded 

 negro in America has in him no elements 

 that will ever lift him above his present 

 condition, the same mental and moral con- 

 dition in which he has been from the dawn 

 of history. 



