policy would violate the dictates both of science and humanity.

 Mixed Marriages.

Mixed Marriages.

The remainder of this rather long chapter is devoted to the number and character of mixed marriages, with the conclusion that the number is on the decrease and the character of one or both of the contracting parties is usually unsavory, and that such unions can form no determining factor in the ultimate solution of the problem.

A study of the fertility of such marriages and the physical, moral, and intellectual stamina of the progeny would furnish valuable sociological data.

CHAPTER V.

Subject: Social Conditions.

Gist: “Immorality is a race trait.”[48]

 Religion and Education.

Religion and Education.

Under the sub-heads of religion and education statistics are presented showing the progress of the race along these lines. A total church membership of 2,673,977 shows that there is one communicant to every 2.79 of the Negro population, against one in every 3.04 for the whites. There were 1,288,736 pupils in the common schools and 34,129 in the higher schools, colleges, and universities. Ordinarily these facts are regarded as the most wonderful evidences of progress which the world has ever witnessed on the part of a backward people. But not so with Mr. Hoffman; the necessities of his [Pg 26]theories compel him to explain away every apparent advantage in favor of the Negro. The author announces with an implied negative response to the suppressed question: “It remains to be shown whether the educational process which the race has undergone during the past quarter of a century and the additional efforts and opportunities for religious instruction have materially raised the race from its low social and economic condition at the time of emancipation.”[49]

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This statement needs no refutation, for it will fall beneath the ponderous weight of its own absurdity.

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