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temporary and insignificant as compared with 

 its biological consequeiices. In welcoming the 

 immigrant to our shores we not only share with 

 him our country but we take him into our 

 families and give to him our children or our 

 children's children in marriage. Whatever the 

 present antipathies may be to such racial mix- 

 lures we may rest assured that in a few hun- 

 dred years these persons of foreign race and 

 blood will be incorporated in our race and we 

 in theirs. From the amalgamation of good 

 races good results may be expected ; but fusion 

 with inferior races, while it may help to raise 

 the lower race, is very apt to pull the higher 

 race down. How insignificant are considera- 

 tions of cheap labor and rapid development of 

 natural resources when compared with these 

 biological consequences ! 



2. Negative Eugenical Measures. — Galton 

 said nothing about sterilization or elimination 

 from reproduction of less valuable lines in his 

 "Inquiries into Htiman Faculty" which was 

 first published in 1883. He proposed no radi- 

 cal policy but rather one which he thought 

 would be practical and might meet with general 



