78 Actual Races in History. 



white, of yellow and red, show how the fusion of 

 race with race has proceeded in various countries. 



And, as it goes on farther, the distin- 

 theUace^ guishing characteristics become less and 



less distinct. While new tints of special 

 characterization are added on, there is no discern- 

 ing any longer what particular varieties of modifi- 

 cation underlie the latest; or which is the latest, or 

 in what order they have been added. This second 

 nature, which has thus overlaid itself upon the rad- 

 ical, common human nature, is not superficial, like 

 the tints of a wall. It is, as we have already seen, 

 physical, physiological, anatomical (No. 55-63). 

 So that all the experiences of a race, in the past, 

 have gone towards forming it as it is at present. Who 

 could now analyze the Anglo-Saxon, or the Celt; or 

 distinguish nicely the elements of the New England 

 Anglo-Saxon as racially different now from his En- 

 glish cousin whom he left on the other side of the 

 ocean, nearly three hundred years ago ? So too, a 

 century hence, the Irish American and the German 

 will have undergone the physical modifications, 

 which the climate and other conditions of the New 

 World are imposing upon them. 



90. Here we see how the general fusion of all 

 nations is tending towards a general similarity, in 



which opposing characters are merged. 

 Ji^";J^. The growing facilities of international 



communication are tending to develop 

 in all men the same views, inclinations and inter- 



