(1922) Racial Intermarriages: Their Scientific Aspect Specially Compiled for the Consideration of Parsees in Connection With the Juddin Question

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xiACIAL INTERMARRIAGES: THEIR SCIENTIFIC ASPECT.

Specially compiled for the consideration of Parsees in

connection with the Juddin question-

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Full

titles

of the books quoted from, for which

abbreviations have been used in

brochure, with

this

their respective abbreviations.

1.

E. B., Vol. IV.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. IV.

2.

Hutchinson, History of " Hutchinson's Nations ... History of the Nations The Phoenecians and the Cartha-

...

Dr.

By D.D,

ginians."

C.V.O., 3.

Darwin, Animals

and f conditions whatever. By all means, therefore, peremptorily interdict

marriages of

Japanese with

foreigners."- -"Life

and Letters

of

Herbert

Spencer," pp. 322-23.

65.

The proverbial degeneration

of the half-caste is no doubt reversion to a primitive type which results from a cross. It would be interesting to quote a few opinions as to the utterly irredeemable character of crossed races. The whole question is summed in the remark made to up pithily Livingstone by an inclue to that

'

habitant on the Zambesi

Mack men lut

the Devil

well as the black one

God made

made

white

half-castes.'

men and God made The white man

as

right so long as he preserves the purity of his blood but as soon as both intermingle and the pure currents is all

are allowed to cross each other there

'

is

reversion to a primitive

and savage condition.' "Social constitutions of this kind, in which aptitudes for forming un-

62 are manifestly

in

unstable equilibrium. in the absence of

of

states

like

structures co-exist,

Any

considerable shock dissolves the organization

;

and

unity of tendency, re-establishment of it is difficult if not impossible. In cases where the conquering and conquered, though widely unlike, intermarry extensively, a kindred effect is produced in another way. The con-

towards different

tendencies

flicting

separate

now

individuals,

in

exist

social

the

instead

types,

of

existing

The

same individual.

in

half-caste,

from one line of ancestry proclivities adapted to one set of institutions, and from the other line of ancestry proclivities adapted to another set of institutions, is not fitted for either. He is a unit whose nature has not been moulded by any social type, and therefore cannot, with inheriting

Modern- Mexico and the South American Republics, with their perpetual revolutions, show iis the result. It is observable, too, that where races of strong-contrasted natures have

others like himself, evolve any social type.

mixed more or

less, or, remaining but little mixed, occupy adjacent areas same government, the equilibrium maintained so long as that government keeps up the coercive form, shows itself to be unstable when the coercion relaxes. Spain with its diverse peoples, Basque, Celtic, Gothic, Moorish, Jewish, partially mingled and partially localized, shows us this

subject to the

SPENCER, Sociology, pp. 592-94. " I think the half-caste race between Indian and African

result."

worst mixture there can

be.

"We had what

call

we

"Chiotara"

the

or

a

half-caste

is

one of the

breed between

the Indian and the Swahili and those were useless physically, and morally

they were bad, and they were no

G.C.M.C., K.C.B.,

Blue Book

advantage at all." SIR JOHN from India to the

KIRK, Crown

(Emigration

Colonies and Protectorates), June 1909. " The bloods of white and black races should not interblend.

It

may,

perhaps, have been due to a disregard of this principle that the cause of progress failed so often in. Africa. The superiority of the progressive communities was lost by admixture with African blood." GENERAL SMUTS,

Speech at a dinner in July 1917. ''These latter facts

remind us

of the statements,

made by

so frequently

travellers in all parts of the world, on the degraded state and savage disposition of crossed races of man. That many excellent and kind-hearted

mulattoes have existed no of

men

who

On

oiie will dispute and a more mild and gentle set could hardly be found than the inhabitants of the island of Chiloe,

consist of Indians

the other hand,

subject,

I

;

commingled with Spaniards in various proportions.

many

plicated descent

fact that,

between Negroes,

whatever the cause might

had thought of the present South America, men of com-

years ago, long before I

was struck with the

be,

in

Indians,

and

a good expression.

unimpeachable authority cannot be quoted

after

Spaniards, Livingstone

speaking

of

seldom had,

and a

a

more

half-caste

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man on

the Zambesi, described by the Portuguese as a rare monster of inhumanity, remarks, "It is unaccountable why half-castes, such as he, are

much more

cruel than the- Portuguese', but such is undoubtedly the case." inhabitant remarked to Livingstone, "God made white men, and God made black men, but the Devil made half-castes." When two races, both

so

An

low in the scale, are crossed, the progeny seems to be eminently bad. the noble-hearted Humboldt,

who

no prejudice against the

felt

Thus

inferior races,

speaks in strong terms of the bad and savage disposition of Zambos, or halfand this conclusion has been arrived castes between Indians and Negroes ;

at by various observers.

From

these facts

we may perhaps infer

tha