Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-05-07

the diversified races ofmen, which dwell upon the
globe, are the descendants of a common parentage.
And yet how immense is the difference now manifest
between the most perfect specimen of the Caucasian
European race with its erect and symmetrical stat
ure, its intellectual COUNT ance and lofty brow, its
beaning eye, its pure ana Ilddy complexon-when
compared with the Diverted Negutos of New Holland,
with crooked limbs, dngy hue, and coarse, repusive,
diotic features, hardly remove above the baboon
the whole physical man being III keeping with the
moral and intellectual degradation Scientific writer's
have divided mankind into different classes, as the
Caucasian, the African the Monongolian the Amer
lean and the Malay. Some have arranged them into
three classes, others into many We look at the
white the red, the brown, the black and the tawny
man, and we find it declared in the Bible that all these
widely different varieties are of common origin And
as we explore the field of physiological science we
meet with continual illustrations and combinations of
this truth, Though cannot fully account for the
present diversity in the aspect of different races this
variety is in accordance with the operation of well
known laws The same parents have some children
Of light complexion blue eyes and light hair and 9TH
ers Of dark complexion, black hair The Caucasian
in tropical climate becomes swarthy, and transmits
to his children darkened hue, while in the cold and
icy regions of the north he becomes the father of
air-sknned and aXen haired race. 1t is in accordance
with the teachings of SCIENCE that those who are well
fed, and well clothed, and protected from the weather
whose moral feelings are diligently trained and
whose intellectual powers are developed by careful
culture, from generation to generation grow more
symmetrical in FORM intellectual in the express
sion Of their features more delicate and fair in skin
and of more perfect general physical organization.
While those who Graded in the huts of barbarism
with naked bodies besmeared with oil and paint, do
zing away animal life in the smoke and filth of
den of savages breathing the pestilent air of boys
and swamps, devourng the nnutritious and unwhole-
some food, unwashed, uncombed- gradually deter
orate, generation after generation, and with matted
hair and backened limbs lose nearly all resemblance to
the refined ancestry from whom they are degraded.
There are many renegade English and American
sailors, who have escaped from whale ships and are
living among the savages Of the Pacific islands. In a
few years after abandoning the ships and surrender
ing themselves to the habits Of savage life they be-
come so changed in color and appearance, that they
cannot be distinguished from the natives. There are
many wellauthentcated instances of children horn of
African parents, and becoming entirely white In re-
peaed instances white spot has made its appearance
upon black skin, and gradually spread, till the COL
ored man from foot to crown become a white man. A
short time ago there was in Richmond, Va. negro
boy as black as ebony with the exception of nearly
halfhis right side and back which were as white as
alabaster The parts of white were increasing and
would probably cover the whole body. These Won
derful anomalies transmitted from parent to child,
Thus does philosophy confirm the declaration of the
Scriptures that God made of one blood all the nations
of the earth.