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encroaching, and in course of time will as surely cause the extinction 
of the other as the white man has caused the extinction of the Bed 
Indians in the eastern States of America, and is rapidly doing the 
same thing to the natives of Hew Zealand. 
Another instance of the gradual driving out of one race by another 
is supposed by some to be going on at this very moment in our 
fields and hedges. The red-legged partridge is in many places 
gradually supplanting the common English partridge. In other 
places he gains ground for a time, but afterwards disappears. It 
is difficult to say, supposing any game still to exist in these islands 
in another hundred years, which breed of the two will be driven 
over the heads of our descendants or walked up by them in their 
turnips and stubbles, whether it is to be a case of successful inva¬ 
sion and extirpation of the original inhabitants, like that by the 
Saxons in England and by the white men in America, or whether 
it will resemble the history of the Spaniards and the Moors. The 
Spaniards, as you may remember, were in the middle ages driven by 
the Mahomedan invaders into the northern mountains of their own 
country, but during several succeeding centuries they gradually 
regained their ground from the intruders, and ended by altogether 
expelling them. 
But it is not only in their emigrations and their territorial con¬ 
quests that men and the lower animals resemble one another. We 
know how much, at all events in the case of domestic animals, the 
breed may be improved by the introduction of a little fresh blood. 
This holds good even in the case of animals which have been only 
half domesticated, like - deer in a park. I have often thought that 
history teaches us the same lesson with regard to men, and that all 
the great nations which have arisen one after the other have owed 
their great qualities to a happy mixture of race. It is, I think, 
necessary in the case of men as in that of other animals that the 
new blood introduced should not be too different from the old. Eor 
instance, no great nation could ever be formed by a cross between 
a white man and the Hegro or the Bed Indian. But let us look 
back through past ages and see whether what I have suggested is 
not on the whole confirmed by example. In the first place I must 
admit that the example of the Jew is against me. But the great¬ 
ness of the Jews was of an altogether peculiar kind. Indeed their 
whole history is so singular and so unlike any other that it may 
perhaps be considered as a thing apart. The Greeks were evidently 
a mixed people. Their traditions pointed to a foreign conquest 
and a dominant race, and the description of the fair-haired heroes 
of the Homeric age, if not altogether suggested by poetic fancy, 
