Whether we like to admit it or not, the result of the mixture of two races, in the long run, gives us a race reverting to the more ancient, generalized and lower type.

Whether we like to admit it or not, the result of the mixture of two races, in the long run, gives us a race reverting to the more ancient, generalized and lower type. The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; the cross between a white man and a negro is a negro; the cross between a white man and a Hindu is a Hindu; and the cross between any of the three European races and a Jew is a Jew.

Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race or The Racial Basis of European History, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916): 15-16. https://archive.org/details/passinggreatrac01grangoog.

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