Fusion of the Races. *]*] 



has just described, when he says of a neighboring 

 country that " the people live there crowded to- 

 gether in poor cabins, and thus necessarily are in 

 the way of temptation, and the island is full of in- 

 flammable material and dangerous situations; yet 

 it is the purest land under the sun;" and, he goes 

 on to say, even in the wild outburst of 1798, it is 

 admitted on all hands that not an outrage in this 

 respect was committed by the rebels. This is the 

 refinement of Christianity in the matter of the so- 

 cial virtues. The brutality of nature is instanced 

 in a whole territory which is excluded from the 

 American Union, because of the opposite state of 

 things; or in a whole population of immigrants, 

 who are likewise excluded from the ports of Cali- 

 fornia. In either extreme of virtue or vice, and in 

 all the grades between, contact among mankind, 

 even when rough at first, always ends in some de- 

 gree of gentle fusion. Simile simili gaudet. The 

 distinguishing characteristics then of pure races 

 are fused and merged in the formation of mixed 

 races. It has only been the barriers of deep rivers, 

 of mountains and of sea, that have kept races by 

 themselves, have made them develop in all their 

 native strength, and add the adornment of their 

 own peculiar variety to the unity of the human 

 species. But not even these barriers, nor those of 

 racial enmity, or political antagonism, have availed 

 to bar out the social instincts of humanity. 



89. The multitudinous shades of black and 



