282 THE STATES OF MAN. 



existing conditions and to believe that present conditions as we 

 like them, are the result of our ideals coming true, rather, than 

 that otu: ideals are the outcome of existing relations and con- 

 ditions which have resulted somewhat independently of our 

 efforts. This unity of the people of the United States, which is 

 greater than any unity within a great nation of which we have 

 knowledge, and which results in democracy, manifests itself 

 in different ways, in great things and in small. In a negligible 

 difference between the political platforms of the two great po- 

 litical parties, but also in the very striking absence of local 

 types of architecture, in the fact, which strikes every European 

 traveller, that all over the country, in Maine and California, the 

 prosperous farm-Uving houses have the same windows, and the 

 same gutters, the same roofs, even the same shade of sky-blue 

 paint on the ceiling of the porch : and that the bams come in 

 two colours only, whitewashed, and painted a hideous red. 



This unity must be the effect of the enormous mass-immigra- 

 tion, which counteracted any dominance of any one people, 

 which counteracts segregation into classes which can get 

 specific rank, and makes a new, real species out of the mixed 

 mass of humanity. These farm-houses are not English farm- 

 houses, and those barns are not English bams by any means, or 

 German bams, or Italian, they are American farm-houses and 

 bams, and they are as truly national in tjipe as the Belgian 

 farms with the central barnyard, or as the enormous thatched 

 buidings in Friesland. 



On the other hand, we think that the democracy which is the 

 natural result of the unity of a people, need not bring with it a 

 real deep rooted wish for democratic ideals, brotherhood of 

 man, and we believe that anybody who knows about the negro- 

 question in the United states will have to concede the point. 



When we study characters of men without keeping in mind 

 grouping of men, species-formation in man, in other words, 

 we place ourselves on the stand-point which the Eugenists have 

 taken; it would seem, as if such an enormous immigration as 

 •that into the United States must make for diversity, and not 



