His conclusion stated that as long as the older tribes were hostile to each other and independent in the past, the separate groups were stable. He attributed the failures of countries to the innate defects of certain races. Slavery also introduced weakness, as slaves were degraded human beings. He did not say that slaves were a particular race, but they were people of inferior quality because of their station in life. Nilsson's sentences near the end of the article included the word "bastardize" or "bastard" fourteen times over two pages. , which illustrated his views on racial mixing in the Roman Empire. He observed little good in the expansion of the Empire with its eventual integration of the other races, which introduced inferior traits. His final point stated that “the consequences of victory would be fatal to the victors, who were confused and lost in the great masses of the vanquished”.