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present antipathies may be to such racial mix- 

 tures 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. — Gaiton 

 said nothing about sterilization or elimination 

 from reproduction of less valuable lines in his 

 "Inquiries into Human 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 

 favor. He suggested a social policy which 

 would delay the age of marriage among the 

 weak and hasten it among the vigorous, 

 whereas present social agencies act in the op- 

 posite direction. He showed by statistics that, 

 on the average, marriage at the age of 22 would 



