So Actual Races in History. 



already mixed, an unconscious selection is ever trend- 

 ing upwards, in a favored direction, to- 

 The Pis- ward what is conceived as the superior 



crimination 



Practised. race. I he half-breed will not marry- 

 down into the lower stock from which she 

 partly sprang, but up into the higher, which alone she 

 cares to recognize. And it is not only the superior 

 race which nature favors thus. Among superior 

 races she discriminates in favor of the more vir- 

 tuous one. Here a word of Holy Writ seems to 

 be verified in the mere natural order of fecundity: 

 " The brood of the wicked shall not thrive." For 

 the prevalence of vice, either by direct malpractice, 

 or by the mere deterioration of the parents' consti- 

 tution, is tending to obliterate races; as it obliter- 

 ated the Romans, masters of the world, and filled 

 their places with a healthy infusion, first of freed- 

 men, and then of barbarian hordes. Without re- 

 curring in modern times to freedmen or barbarians, 

 nature is avenging herself upon races which had a 

 right to be considered prominent in many a native 

 quality and talent. They are dying out right under 

 our eyes, themselves lamenting the fact. And she 

 is calling upon nations, not inferior in other re- 

 spects, but superior in Christian purity and virtue, 

 to come and engraft themselves upon the decaying 

 stock, or to supplant the race, when the measure of 

 its iniquity is full. 



93. All this seems to foreshadow that, as the 

 Greek world of old fused many little tribes into one 



