He maintains that a pure type of any race can seldom be found, and that it is impossible to characterize races on the basis of any large trait. Western civilization, he shows, is the product of mixed race rather than the blonde type. In particular, American civilization is indebted in a remarkable degree to what he calls foreign descended genius. His discus sion of race amalgamation, including the pos sible lowering of the resultant stock by'inter marriage, is specially interesting.
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