In 1919, distinguished geneticists Edward M. East and Donald F. Jones, like Davenport, believed that admixture of an inferior stock with a superior one led to a lowering of the superior stock (Farber 2011). Reverting to the philosophy of Hume and Kant, they wrote (East and Jones 1919, 253): “In reality the Negro is inferior to the white. This is not hypothesis or supposition; it is a crude statement of actual fact.
