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ever external conditions, which have favored new 

 varieties, begin to diminish in force. Fourthly, there 

 is the indubitable fact that more than half the human 

 race, viz., a large majority of the females and a con- 

 siderable proportion of the males, always have been 

 in every generation, even up to this present age, of 

 the true race characteristics. See note, page 39, 

 and Appendix, Note IV. 



The law quoted establishes beyond doubt that 

 the true race character has an enormous advantage 

 in the matter of new births over the false type. 

 Add to this the fact established by the fourth 

 premise, that taking both sexes into consideration 

 the true type has always had the advantage of being 

 represented by a larger number of adult individuals 

 in each generation, and that new births must, caeteris 

 paribus, always increase and decrease in proportion 

 with the number of adult individuals capable of re- 

 production, and it is demonstrated beyond reason- 

 able doubt that, throughout all past ages and up to 

 this present time, new births have always con- 

 tributed more profusely to the true race type and 

 less to the false. 



Therefore, unless the natural course of events had 

 been interfered with, there should exist in this 

 present age, thousands of generations after the 

 cause of the natural selection of the false type has 

 ceased to operate (see third premise above), an over- 

 whelming predominance of persons of the true type, 

 irrespective of sex, in all avenues of human activity, 



