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animal world—the object of which is to preserve
the distinction of species, and to maintain the
purity, and secure the advancement, of the higher
and nobler races of men. It is an instinctive prin-
ciple implanted in the nature of every living being
which draws him from those that are unlike him-
self in their physical conformation, and toward
those that resemble him. In species that are en-
tirely distinct from each other the aversion to
domestic union is unconquerable. In the case of
varieties, like those seen in the different races of
men, the repulsive instinct by means of which
nature intends to keep them separate from each
other, in respect to the propagation of their kind,
is. less strong, but it is none the less real, and the
design with which it has been implanted is benefi-
cent in the highest degree. Thus the amalgama-
tion of the Indian race with the Caucasian race
coming to the new world from Europe, would have
been against nature, and the instinctive principle,
both in the heart of the Indian and of the white
man, which leads each to love, and to seek domes-
tic and social union with, those of their own race,
and to avoid such union with those of the other,
was one wisely implanted in the heart by the great
author of nature, and one which both races were
accordingly bound to obey.
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