Whether we call it civilization, or humanising, or progress, which now distinguishes the European, whether we call it simply, without praise or blame, by the political formula the movement in Europe behind all the moral and political foregrounds pointed to by such formulas, an immense goes on, which is ever extending the process of the assimilation of Europeans, their increasing detachment from the conditions under which, climatically and hereditarily, united races originate, their increasing independence of every definite milieu,