`  ::It is not a quote taken out of context.  The entire book talks about which race/nationality is preferable to the other and how certain ``lesser`` races/nationalities ought to be kept from making a large impact on the collective gene pool.  Why don't you read The Old World in the New?  ( http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id;=wq0JAAAAIAAJ )  Even a brief skim over the material shows it to be a book dedicated to cataloging the different races and nationalities and their respective detrimental or beneficial impacts .  Here are the section headings of one of the chapters (American Blood and Immigrant Blood) within the book:  :::``Primitive types among the foreign-born`` :::``How immigration will affect good looks in this country`` :::``Effect of crossing on personal beauty`` :::``Stature and physique of the newer immigrants`` :::``Do they revitalize the American people?`` :::``Race morals of the Southern European stocks`` :::``Are the immigrants good samples of their own people?`` :::``Appraisal of the different ethnic strains in the American people`` :::``Rating of the present immigrant streams`` :::``How immigration has affected the fecundity of Americans`` :::``Evading a degrading competition by race suicide`` :::``The triumph of the low-standard elements over the high-standard elements``  ::This is obviously not a matter of conjecture or personal opinion.  The book might as well be called Eugenics For Dummies.`