Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PHYSICAL DESTINY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO America has been called the universal melt ing pot, in which the various nationalities of Europe are to be fused into one homogeneous type. This alembic, however, is supposed to affect only the different branches of the Aryan race. The accepted assimilative process is not universal in its scope, but is limited to the continent of Europe. The white races alone are deemed eligible components of the desired compound. The polychrome races and sub-races of Asia, Africa, and the scattered islands of the seas are not considered as contributory factors to the forthcoming composite American type. The primal passion of mankind recognizes no ethnic limitations or physical barriers of race, but results in fusion of blood wherever it has unconstrained exercise and scope. Racial antipathies real or alleged, political pronouncements, religious inhibition, social proscription, all break down in face of the cosmicurge to multiply and replenish the earth. The sons of God, in their supercilious security, never fail to look lustfully upon the daughters of men, while shielding their own sisters from the embraces of the lower order of males. The composite progeny is the offspring of the male sex of the stronger race and the female sex of the weaker; but, in the final fetching up of things, the same results will be accomplished. "Wherever different racial elements are brought into proximity, physical separation can be safeguarded only by legislative enactment, religious sanction, and the excitation of race antipathy by artificial stimulus. Universal experience shows that natural aversion of races does not possess strength and stubbornness to preserve purity of breed. The white race in America is put to its wit's end to keep its racial stock free from ...