Amalgam Of Races

One of the subjects whieh excites the attention of thinkcrs is the probable outcome of the commingling of races throughout the world. The result is, of course, purely a matter of speculation, as there are no data whatever frotn which may be deduced an exact conclusión. There are those who lean to the opinión that in the cour; e of many centuries, all race distinction will disappear, and a human amalgara, homogeneous in its qualities, will take the place of the present interminable variety. This country has more interest In this question than any other. It is an enormous reservoir into which are being poured streams from all the racial sourees. The homogeneous amalgam, if ever formed, will erystallize on this continent: and here will be located the ultímate re&ults of race admixture. Wliat will be the nature of this composition? It is not a thing whose occurrence is so near that we nave a personal interest in it; nevei-theless, the iuspirations of curiosity are such that we cannot help glaucing into the remóte future with the hope that we may get a glimpse of the product of the process of distillation. One may not see anything with precisión at this distance, but the imagination may discover a condition of things which, if not exact, may at least be characterized by curious qualities. THE FINAL SOLIDIFICATION. The believers in the final solidification of the various races conclude, of course, that the distinotions now .prevailing between white, negro and Indian in this country will be obliterated. The processes of absoi'ption will not only necessarily wipe out these three races as such, but they will include and dispose of the diverse nationalities which already , in the presence of Germán, Irish, French, Scandinavian, Spanish, Italian and the like elements, form so large a portion of this country. If such a work shall be done, it will be one of the grandest ever undertaken by nature. Nothing in the labors even of the chemistry which has constructed uni versea from a few simple gases would be the equal in magnitude and importance of this colossal effort. If the teacbings in regard to heredity are reliable, then we may Ie certain that in the final composition there will be no essentiul traits now in existence that will be wanting. In a more attenuated form, but neverthelesa existent and tangible, will be a strain of Yankee shrewdness, of British obstinacy, of Italian subtlety, Indian craft, Af rican grossness, Germán transeendentalism, Prench suavity, with possibly a taint of the tastes of the cannibal and something of the coarse gustatory tendencies of the Esquimaux. It is logical, in view of the teacbings of modern science to conclude that the stronger of these qualities will prerail, and that while none of thein will ever become extinct many will beeonie merely rudimentary, modifying to a very limited degree the characteristics of the whole. The fittest will survive, and henee we may frame a guess as to the rough outlines of the compact result. SURVIVAL. OF THE MTTEST. Grouping the more potent of the race qualities which will be likely to survive in a reeognizable form, we may construct the man of the far future as one who has lost the hue of white which now dominates civilization. The blood of the African will darken the cheek of the coming man until there will come a time when the existence of races of whites will have passed into the regions of the legendary. His will not be the tint of the mulatto, but the result of the spreading on a white ground of a mixture, black, yellow, red, and other darksome hues, and which will be a rioh bronze, equally removed from the repellaiit black and the effeminate jiallor of the ruling races. Exposed to tha desiccative influence of this elimate, he will be thinner than the average man of the continent at this time, and will possess an endurance, a longevity. a healthf ulness far above those of the present period. The extent of the life of this man will be far above the century, for in the evolution of qualities the more robust will survive. He will very largely have increased the size and value of ihe human brain, and heneé will occupy an immeasureably higher intellectual station. The political and social experiments and the mechanical achievements of a period like the present one will seem to him - if there shall remain any record of what we have done - as crude and barbarais in the extreme. He will have mastered the most important secrets of nature, and, aided by this knowledge, will be able to wield powers and command results which we now would ascribe as the especial property of omnipotence. He will have bridled the cyclone and put a harness on the earthquake and the storm. Containing in himself all the better qualities strained through a thousand centuries, with the evil, the weakness, of the present human nature eliminated he will be a