It is only the sense of blood superiority, the pride of race, that has hitherto protected the white labourer. Break this down or abate it, and he sinks swiftly to the level of the mongrel. Laugh as you will at the haughtiness of the ignorant Southerner, at his scorn of the Negro, perhaps his superior, it is this very race self-respect that is the rock of his salvation. As Bernhard Moses points out, it was _because_ the Anglo-Saxon so cherished this feeling that he refused to amalgamate with the Indians--a proud and in some ways superior race--but drove them relentlessly, and often, it may be, unrighteously before him into the sea. It was just _because_ the Spaniard, though otherwise proud enough, did not cherish this feeling, that he did amalgamate with the victims of his greed and descend into hopeless depths of hybridization. So far, then, from doing aught to weaken this sentiment, we should do our utmost to strengthen it; we should studiously avoid offending it. But social equality must deadly wound it and hence drag miscegenation and all South America in its train. But some may deny that the mongrelization of the Southern people would offend the race notion--would corrupt or degrade the Southern stock of humanity. If so, then such a one has yet to learn the largest-writ lessons of history and the most impressive doctrines of biological science. That the Negro is markedly inferior to the Caucasian is proved both craniologically and by six thousand years of planet-wide experimentation; and that the commingling of inferior with superior must lower the higher is just as certain as that the half-sum of two and six is only four.[1] [1] For detailed proof of these propositions, see the following chapters. If accepted science teaches anything at all, it teaches that the heights of being in civilized man have been reached along one path and one only--the path of _Selection_, of the preservation of favoured individuals and of favoured races. The deadly enemy of the whole process of uplifting, of the _Drang nach oben_, of the course of history itself, is _pammixia_. Only give it play, and it would inevitably level all life into one undistinguished heap. Now, amalgamation of Black and White is only a special case of _pammixia_. The hope of the human lies in the superhuman; and the possibility of the superhuman is given in selection, in natural and rational selection, among the children that are to be, of the parents of the men to come. The notion of social racial equality is thus seen to be abhorrent alike to instinct and to reason; for it flies in the face of the process of the suns, it runs counter to the methods of the mind of God.