The fact that was constantly overlooked was that Mexico was not a Caucasian country: it was a great shambling Indian Republic.

Of its 15,000,000 people less than 3,000,000 were of unmixed white blood, about 35 per cent.

were pure Indian, and the rest represented varying mixtures of white and aboriginal stock.

The masses had advanced little in civilization since the days of Cortez.

Eighty per cent.