Chapter XVI: Some Reflections and Forecasts

Rapid filling up of the Cultivable Areas of the World 552

Regions available for Settlement in South America 555

The Temperate Regions 556

The _Selvas_ of the Amazonian Plain 558

Possible Future Population of South America 563

Elements, Aboriginal and White, in the Population 564

Phenomena of Race Intermixture in South America 566

No Predominant Type in the South American Peoples 568

Spanish Americans misjudged because their Conditions at Time
of Independence were not Understood 570

Evidences of Social and Political Advancement 573

South America has suffered from Want of Intellectual Contact
with Other Countries 574

The Spanish Race stronger on the Practical than on the
Intellectually Creative Side 577

Backwardness of Knowledge and Intelligence in the Rural Parts
of Spanish America 580

Decline in the Influence of the Church and Religion 582

Continued Vigour of the Spanish-American Race 584

NOTE I. Some Books upon Latin America 587

NOTE II. A Few Remarks on travelling in South America 588

INDEX 591

MAPS. South America.
The Isthmus of Panama.
Parts of Peru and Bolivia.
The Straits of Magellan.
Parts of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.