The following is an excerpt from a speech by Henry Cabot Lodge on immigration reform (Evaluating the Evidence 24.1): "[I]t is on the moral qualities of the English-speaking race that our history, our victories, and all our future rest. There is only one way in which you can lower those qualities or weaken those characteristics, and that is by breeding them out. If a lower race mixes with a higher in sufficient numbers, history teaches us that the lower race will prevail. . . . The lowering of a great race means not only its own decline, but that of civilization. . . ."
Lodge believed that unrestricted interracial sexual relations would result in

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Lodge believed that unrestricted interracial sexual relations would lead to the decline of civilization and the weakening of characteristics and qualities of the English-speaking race. He believed that a lower race mixing with a higher race would result in the lower race prevailing, leading to the decline of a great race and civilization.

The Following Is an Excerpt from a Speech by Henry