. I cannot here enter into the details of this question. It
seems obvious to me, however, that in the already considerable time
during which the American negroes have been under the influence of
European culture, they ought to have often demonstrated their power of
assimilating it and of developing it independently, according to their
own genius, if their brains were capable of so doing. Instead of this,
we find that negroes in the interior of the island of Haiti, formerly
civilized by France, then abandoned to themselves, have, with the
exception of a few mulattoes, reverted to the most complete barbarism,
and have even barbarized the French language and Christianity, with
which they had been endowed.

Compare with this the rapidity with which a civilized or civilizable
race, depending on its innate energy, assimilates our culture with or
without Christianity! We need only look at what has happened in Japan
during the last thirty years, and what the Christian races of the
Balkan countries have been doing after delivery from the yoke of the
Turks--for example, the Roumanians, Bulgarians and Greeks.

It is by its fruits that we judge the value of the tree. The Japanese
are a civilizable and civilized race, and must be treated as such. The
negroes, on the contrary, are not so; that is to say, they are only by
themselves capable of quite an inferior civilization, and only become
adapted to our customs by a superficial veneer of civilization.

Up to what point can the Mongolian, and even the Jewish race, become
mixed with our Aryan or Indo-Germanic races, without gradually
supplanting them and causing them to disappear? This is a question I
am incapable of answering. If it were only a question of the Japanese
there would be no serious difficulty and the assimilation would be
beneficial. But the Chinese and some other Mongolian races constitute
an imminent danger for the very existence of the white races. These
people eat much less than ourselves, are contented with much smaller
dwellings, and in spite of this produce twice as many children and do
twice as much work. The connection of this with the sexual question is
not difficult to understand.

Possibly we might make a compact with the Mongols, and the Chinese in
particular, which would allow both races to live on the earth without
annihilating each other. I am quite convinced that we have more to
fear from their blood and their work than from their arms. Some time
ago