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government. Eacial qualities might be classed as follows : — Saxon, 

 masculine ; — Celtic, feminine ; — Negro, the servant. Under no 

 circumstances should the inferior race govern the superior ; nor 

 should the Negro intermarry with either of the two white races. 

 He could not quite accept the lecturer's final remarks as to the 

 connection between democracy and authority in religion. 



Mr. Martin L. Rouse said that such a lecture, as they had 

 listened to that afternoon, warmed their blood and tended to 

 strengthen still further the bonds that united Englishmen and the 

 descendants of England's first colonists in America. The misguided 

 policy of the British Government a hundred and forty years ago 

 had driven those colonies out of political union with ourselves ; but 

 they still inherited the same common language and traditions, and 

 the kinship of the two countries was more treasured than ever. He 

 had observed with delight the children of many different 

 nationalities in a State school in Buffalo, learning to read the Word 

 of God in common ; and he felt that such schools were a great force 

 for welding all the citizens of the country into one compact body 

 imbued with the fear of God. But he was sorry that, through the 

 traditions which had come down from the old slave-holding days, 

 the feelings of brotherhood in Americans seemed blunted when 

 dealing with one large section of their community — the Negroes. 



Mr. E. Walter Maunder had been much struck with the masterly 

 way in which the lecturer had arranged his paper and ordered his 

 argument. The problem before the United States was a very 

 difficult one, because both the proportion and the character of the 

 immigration had undergone so great a change in the last generation, 

 and it was natural to suppose that, under such changed conditions, 

 the experience of the past was no sufficient guide as to the future. 

 To meet this objection, the lecturer had formulated two laws, which 

 he had defended with great force. With regard to the first 

 law, many illustrations might be brought from history to support 

 the lecturer's contention. Thus, there had been a long succession of 

 waves of population flowing over Greece, so that some of our best 

 ethnologists claimed that the present Greeks had practically no 

 racial connection with ancient Greece. Yet the Greek peasantry of 

 the present day were very little changed in their characteristics from 

 what the inhabitants of the same regions were three thousand years 

 ago. Similarly the Ulstermen of to-day, in many points resembled 



