ment is fast displacing it, and consequently is disqualifying them as breeders of a superior posterity. Excessive mental training saps the constitution of its sacred, magnetic, feminine qualities, and leaves the subject in a cold, reasoning atmosphere, instead of in the warm, attractive, magnetic feminality. No truly superior man of ability looks for an encyclopedia, a library or bookstore, in the brain of a woman, when looking for the mother of his future children. The woman of today who is so top-heavy or excessively loaded with these things, that it overshadows and shrivels her feminality, or generative functions, is not the fit mother of a superior Education in women is not only desirable but necessary, even if only for congenial companionship to her husband, but if it robs her of the sexual or animal qualities necessary for the perpetuation and improvement of the human race, then it were better if she remained illiterate and thereby fulfilled her mission and be blessed by succeeding generations. Excessive mental development also retards marriage, and often the best years of a woman's bearing period slips by before she enters the state of motherhood. Negro and colored Caucasian women of the Vital Temperament ripen young, marry young, and leave off bearing younger than those of a Mental or Motive Temperament. They of the race. Vital Temperament are very passionate, both men and women, but changeable in mood; lively, cheerful, amiable, frank, and candid, fond of good living, play and sport; and at the same time apt to fall into habits of eating and drinking that are injurious. Thus, with strong social affections, they are more liable to irregularities in the way of frivolity and dissipation than persons of the Motive Temperament. When, however, the moral principles are developed to restrain or regulate their conduct, they generally lead very happy, useful lives, enjoying and promoting enjoyment. THE MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT.-The Motive Temperament has its constitutional basis in the bony and muscular system. We find it in some Negroes, but most generally leaning more or less toward the Vital. The Motive Temperament is the result of climatic and geographical conditions. We find it most fully represented in people of high or mountainous latitudes, but rarely met with in low, hot climates. All fighting races are good representatives of this Temperament; the North American Indian being an excellent example, as are also the various European and some Asiatic races. But as we have just intimated, we find the Motive Temperament in the Negro-not the Roman nose and prominent features of the Caucasian or the Indian rep resentatives; it being a class by itself, of which the Jap and Chinaman are akin. Should we select an army for a long, desperate and fierce conflict, we would invariably choose one from the Negro or Mongolian races, and our first choice would be the Negro. The Negro and Mongolian representatives have not the combative and other fighting qualifications as prominently developed as is found in some other races, but when thoroughly trained as soldiers, they have a toughness and tenacity in battle that challenges every other race of fighters in the world. The Jap has, we think, already demonstrated this scientific fact, and give the Negro training and a fair chance and he will do the same; and every race and clan, including the proud Anglo-Saxon, would stand aghast, bewildered and confounded, with open eye and mouth, like a suckling babe! Let the American Negro and colored Caucasian take better care of their health, refrain from all immoral, debilitating influences, lift up the moral standard of their women, and then, some day, they will be fully equipped to demonstrate their power, and reap laurels that will set upon their kinky-haired head with eternal glory and honor. The shambling, shiftless, snivelling being of today may have within him the making of a man of tomorrow. It is all a matter of latent possibilities that count in the future of a race, |