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and more confirm that character. The black, by the sheer 
force of his fecundity, will outweigh the superior intellect 
and energy of the white ! 
How can such a calamity to America, and to the whole 
world, be averted ? A fusion of the two races Prof. Gilliam 
- — rightly in my opinion — pronounces impossible. He 
writes : — “ Account for it as we may, the antipathy is a 
palpable faCt which no one fails to recognise, — an antipathy 
not less strong among Northern than among the Southern 
whites. However the former may, on the score of matters 
political, profess themselves special friends to the blacks, 
the question of social intermarriage and social equality, 
when brought to practical test, they will not touch with the 
end of the little finger. Whether it be that the blacks, 
because of their former condition of servitude, are regarded 
as a permanently degraded class, — whether it be that the 
whites, from their historic eminence, are possessed with a 
consciousness of superiority which spurns alliance, — the fadt 
that fusion is impossible no one in his senses can deny.” I 
fully admit this conclusion, but I should seek the cause in a 
simple racial repugnance, founded not on what has been, 
but on what is and must be. An eminent German professor 
whose views have been expounded in the “Journal of 
Science ” would doubtless here point to the specific odour 
of the black, which to the senses of the white is intensely 
offensive. Under ordinary circumstances no Aryan man 
would seek a negress as a wife, whilst the notion of an Aryan 
woman becoming the wife of a negro seems simply revolting. 
It is noteworthy that since the emancipation the production 
of half-breeds — one of the worst results of slavery — has 
decreased, if it has not come to an end altogether. The 
probability of a fusion of the two races may be in fine dis- 
missed, and it will appear at the same time that the blacks 
must remain as that dangerous phenomenon an impenum in 
imperio. 
It may be asked, Is there any hope that the more rapid 
increase of the Negro as compared with the Aryan depends 
upon temporary conditions, which it might be hoped may 
not be permanent ? 
Prof. Gilliam maintains that the key to the different rate 
of increase is found in the superior fecundity of the blacks 
as a race, “ and is strengthened for them — 1. As being the 
labouring class ; 2.. As labouring under favourable climatic 
conditions; i.e., living in a semi-tropical region.” The 
second of these conditions evidently applies to the Southern 
States only. In the Middle and Northern States the negro 
