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Such, then, briefly were the people 
composing the colonies when we 
faced England in the war for inde- 
pendence. It will be observed that 
with the exception of the Huguenot 
French, who formed but a small per- 
centage of the total population, the 
people of the thirteen colonies were 
all of the same original race stocks. 
The Dutch, the Swedes, and the Ger- 
mans simply blended again with the 
English-speaking people, who like 
them were descended from the Ger- 
manic tribes whom Cesar fought and 
Tacitus described. 
During the present century, down 
to 1875, there have been three large 
migrations to this country in addition 
to the always steady stream from 
Great Britain; one came from Ire- 
land about the middle of the century, 
and somewhat later one from Ger- 
many and one from Scandinavia, in 
which is included Sweden, Denmark, 
and Norway. The Irish, although of 
a different race stock originally, have 
been closely associated with the Eng- 
lish-speaking people for nearly a 
thousand years. ‘They speak the same 
language, and during that long period 
the two races have lived side by side, 
and to some extent intermarried. 
The Germans and Scandinavians are 
again people of the same race stock 
as the English who founded and 
built up the colonies. 
century, down to 1875, then, as in 
the two which preceded it, there had 
been scarcely any immigration to this 
country, except from kindred or al- 
lied races, and no other, which was 
sufficiently numerous to have pro- 
duced any effect on the national char- 
acteristics, or to be taken into ac- 
here. Since 1875, however, 
there has been a great change. While 
the people who for two hundred and 
fifty years have been migrating to 
America have continued to furnish 
large numbers of immigrants to the 
United States, other races of totally 
different race origin, with whom the 
English-speaking people have never 
hitherto been assimilated or brought 
in contact, have suddenly begun to 
immigrate to the United States in 
large numbers. Russians, Hungar- 
jians, Poles, Bohemians, Italians, 
Greeks, and even Asiatics, whose im- 
migration to America was almost un- 
During this ~ 
known twenty years ago, have during 
the last twenty years poured in in 
steadily increasing numbers, until 
now they nearly equal the immigra- 
tion of those races kindred in blood 
or speech, or both, by whom the Uni- 
ted States has hitherto been built up 
and the American people formed. 
This momentous fact is the one 
which confronts us today, and if con- 
tinued, it carries with it future con- 
sequences far deeper than any other 
event of our times. It involves, in 
a word, nothing less than the possi- 
bility of a great and perilous change 
in the very fabric of our race. The 
English-speaking race, as I have 
shown, has been made slowly during 
the centuries. Nothing has happened 
thus far to radically change it here. 
In the United States, after allowing 
for the variations produced by new 
climatic influences and changed con- 
ditions of life and of political insti- 
tutions, it is still in the great essen- 
tials fundamentally the same race. 
The additions in this country until 
the present time have been from kin- 
dred people or from those with whom 
we have been long allied and who 
speak the same language. By those 
who look at this question superficially 
we hear it often said that the English 
speaking people, especially in Amer- 
ica, are a mixture of races. Analysis 
shows that an actual mixture of 
blood in the English-speaking race 
is. very small, and that while 
the English-speaking people are de- 
rived through different channels, no 
doubt, there is among them none 
the less an overwhelming preponder- 
ance of the same race stock, that of 
the great Germanic tribes who 
reached from Norway to the Alps. 
They have been welded together by 
more than a thousand years of wars, 
conquests, migrations, and struggles, 
both at home and abroad, and in so 
doing they have attained a fixity and 
definiteness of national character un- 
known to any othér people. Let me 
quote on this point a disinterested 
witness of another race and another 
language, M. Gustave Le Bon, a dis- 
tinguished French writer of the high- 
est scientific training and attainments, 
who says in his very remarkable book 
on the Evolution of Races: 
“Most of the historic races of Eur- 
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ope are still in process of formation, 
and it is important to realize this fact 
in order to understand their history. 
The English alone represent a race 
almost entirely fixed. In them the 
ancient Briton, the Saxon, and the 
Norman have been effaced to form a 
new and very homogeneous type.” 
It being admitted, therefore, that a 
historic race of fixed type has been 
developed, it remains to consider 
what this means, what a race is, and 
what a change would portend. That 
which identifies a race and sets it 
apart from others is not to be found 
merely or ultimately in its physical 
appearance, its institutions, its law, its 
literature or even its language. ‘These 
are in the last analysis only the ex- 
pression or the evidence of race. 
The achievements of the intellect 
pass easily from land to land and 
from people to people. The tele- 
phone, invented but yesterday, is used 
today in China, in Australia, or in 
South Africa as freely as in the Uni- 
ted States. The book which the press 
today gives to the world in English, 
is scattered tomorrow throughout the 
earth in every tongue, and _ the 
thoughts of the writer become the 
property of mankind. You can take 
a Hindoo and give him the highest 
education the world can afford. He 
has a keen intelligence. He will ab- 
sorb the learning of Oxford, he will 
acquire the manners and habits of 
England, he will sit in the British 
Parliament, but you can not make him 
an Englishman. Yet he, like his con- 
queror, is of the great Indo-European 
family. But it has taken six thou- 
sand years and more to create the 
differences which exist between them. 
You can not efface those differences 
thus made, by education in a single 
life, because they do not rest upon 
the intellect. What, then, is the mat- 
ter of race which separates the Eng- 
lishman from the Hindoo and_ the 
American from the Indian? It is 
something deeper and more funda- 
mental than anything which concerns 
the intellect. We all know it in- 
stinctively, although it is so impalpa- 
ble that we can scarcely define it, and 
yet is so deeply marked that even the 
physiological differences between the 
Negro, the Mongol, and the Cau- 
casian are not more persistent or 
more obvious. When we speak of a 
race, then, we do not mean its ex- 
pressions in art or in language, or its 
achievements in knowledge. We 
mean the moral and intellectual char- 
acters, which in their association 
make the soul of a race, and which 
represent the product of all its past, 
the inheritance of all its ancestors, 
and the motives of all its conduct. 
