“It is not the conditions of life but in the race traits and tendencies that we find the causes of the excessive mortality.”[3]
“For the root of the evil lies in the fact of an immense amount of immorality, which is a race trait.”[4]
“A combination of these traits and tendencies must in the end cause the extinction of the race.”[5]
“It is not in the conditions of life but in race and heredity that we find the explanation.”[6]
“The mixture of the African with the white race has been shown to have seriously affected the longevity of the former and left as a heritage to future generations the poison of scrofula, tuberculosis, and most of all, of syphilis.”[7]
If the reader will keep constantly in mind the key suggested by these quotations, he will peruse the book itself as well as this review with greater ease and facility.
CHAPTER I.
Subject. Population.
Gist. “For some generations the colored element may continue to make decennial gains, but it is very probable that the next thirty years will be the last to show total gains, and then the decrease will be slow but sure until final disappearance.”[8]