James Bryce. a thoughtful foreign student of our institutions and a luminous writer. observes thatWhat strikes the traveler. and what the Americans themselves delight. to point out to him. is the amazing solvent power which American institutions. habits. and ideas exercise on newcomers of all races. The children of Irishmen. Germans. and Scandinavians are far more like native Americans than prevalent views of heredity would lead us to expect. Nor is it without interest to observe that nature has here repeated on the Western Continent that process of mixing Celtic with Germanic and Worse blood which began in Britain more than a thousand years ago. Until recent years immigration was invited and stimulated by liberal homestead laws and by colonization agencies which offered alluring inducements. All who sought our shores were accepted without question or discrimination. The educated. moral. and patriotic were welcome.
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