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... Indian Archipelago , where the white man can never live except as an exotic . If , however , the white race is precluded by natural laws from colonising on a large scale anywhere except in the Temperate Zone , it seems certain that the ...
... Indian Archipelago , where the white man can never live except as an exotic . If , however , the white race is precluded by natural laws from colonising on a large scale anywhere except in the Temperate Zone , it seems certain that the ...
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... Indians are showing themselves capable of self- government . If the Indians do not supersede men of European descent , negroes or Chinamen will . - Only the parts of America from which Indians have already been driven are fitted to be ...
... Indians are showing themselves capable of self- government . If the Indians do not supersede men of European descent , negroes or Chinamen will . - Only the parts of America from which Indians have already been driven are fitted to be ...
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... Indians are a powerless minority , and the number of European immigrants to that country and to South Brazil seems likely to increase year by year . In Australasia , and in the islands of the Pacific , where Europeans have settled , or ...
... Indians are a powerless minority , and the number of European immigrants to that country and to South Brazil seems likely to increase year by year . In Australasia , and in the islands of the Pacific , where Europeans have settled , or ...
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... Indians of Mexico and Peru been as un- tamable as the Araucanians were or the Apaches are , the white man could not have existed side by Iside with them . He must either have exterminated them or have been driven out . In fact , however ...
... Indians of Mexico and Peru been as un- tamable as the Araucanians were or the Apaches are , the white man could not have existed side by Iside with them . He must either have exterminated them or have been driven out . In fact , however ...
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... Indians are a powerless minority , and the number of European immigrants to that country and to South Brazil seems likely to increase year by year . In Australasia , and in the islands of the Pacific , where Europeans have settled , or ...
... Indians are a powerless minority , and the number of European immigrants to that country and to South Brazil seems likely to increase year by year . In Australasia , and in the islands of the Pacific , where Europeans have settled , or ...
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Page 43 - The day will come, and perhaps is not far distant, when the European observer will look round to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races...
Page 41 - Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march, they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page 233 - ... it is melancholy to say it, but the chief, perhaps the only, English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian, is the infidel Gibbon.
Page 1 - We know that coloured and white labour cannot exist side by side; we are well aware that China can swamp us with a single year's surplus of population; and we know that if national existence is sacrificed to the working of a few mines and sugar plantations, it is not the Englishman in Australia alone, but the whole civilised world, that will be the losers.
Page 33 - You know me very ill if you do not think that of all the letters I have ever wrote to You this one gives me the most pleasure, and I want no other return but...
Page 44 - We were struggling among ourselves for supremacy in a world which we thought of as destined to belong to the Aryan races and to the Christian faith; to the letters and arts and charm of social manners which we have inherited from the best times of the past.
Page 59 - He said that the ancient civilizations of the world had been undermined and destroyed by two causes, — the increase of standing armies, and the growth of great cities ; and that modern civilization had now added to these sources of decay a third, in the hypothecation of every nation's property to other nations.