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2a
choice induced the invaders to associate themselves
with the aborigines in forming new States. No
chasm between civilization and barbarism
separated the races. But in the much
more extensive colonization of the last 300
years, the most avanced nations in the world
have come to tribes which had been for
thousands of years separated from the rest
of mankind, differing in colour, in habits,
in dispositions, so widely that mutual
repulsion and hostility commonly ensued.
A narrow channel divided the habits and
dispositions of ancient Pelasgeans and Hellenes,
Romans and Cappadocians, Celts and Teutones
a gulph almost impassable separated the
Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, English and French
from the Malays, Carribees, negroes, and
Hottentots of modern times. And although
the legions of emmigrants who have gone forth
from Europe, since the [revival?] and geographical