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the various aboriginal races had always been,
still continued to be, treated with the strictest
justice and the most sincere and cordial good will,
they would have none the less surely fulfilled the
universal destiny of the lower to give way before
the higher forms, in the great onward march of
organization and life ; but the change would have
come slowly, quietly, and without suffering. In-
deed, the very beings subject to it, with the excep-
tion of a few far-seeing minds that might discover
it by a special and laborious study of the past
and of the future, would have been unconscious
that it was going on.
DIFFICULTIES THAT OPPOSED THE AMALGAMATION OF THE
TWO RACES.
It might at first be supposed that when a supe-
rior and an inferior race were brought thus together
upon the same territory, a process of amalgama-
in would have set in, by which, in the end, they
ould gradually be melted into one ; but there
very deep-seated causes operating in all such
to prevent such a union. In the first place,
e mental and physical constitution of the Indian
him specially for wandering as a hunter
rough the woods, and gaining his subsistence
the chase, and for no other mode of life.
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