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theless, there is little likelihood of an individual return to 

 the pure type of either race. The difficulties involved are 

 those described in Chapter VII. The races differ by so 

 many transmissible factors, factors which are probably 

 linked in varied ways, that there is, practically speaking, 

 no reasonable chance of such breaks in linkage occurring 

 as would bring together only the most desirable features, 

 even supposing conscious selection could be made. Xnd 

 selection is not conscious. Breeding for the most part is 

 at random. The reaVresult of such a wide racial cross, 

 therefore, is to break apart those compatible physical and 

 mental qualities which have established a smoothly oper- 

 ating whole in each race by hundreds of generations of 

 natural selection. 



If the two races possessed equivalent physical char- 

 acteristics and mental capacities, there would still be _^ 

 this valid genetical objection to crossing, as one may 

 readily see. But in reality the negro^ is inferior to the 

 white." ^ This is notTypothesis~or supposition; it is a 

 crude statement of actual fact. The negro has given the 

 world no original contribution of high merit. By his own 

 initiative in his original habitat, he has never risen. JJ 

 Transplanted to a new environment, as in the case of 

 Haiti, he has done no better. In competition with the 

 white race, he has failed to approach its standard. But 

 because he has failed to equal the white man's ability, his 

 natural increase is low in comparison. The native popu- 

 lation of Africa is increasing very slowly, if at all. In 

 the best environment to which he has been subjected, the 

 United States, his ratio in the general population is j 

 decreasing. His only chance for an extended survivalj 

 is amalgamation. 



