New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-12

very small though select audience greeted the Doctor
this the occasion of his first lecture before Newor
leans public.
His subject The history of the human and
the diversity of their origin
He began with the proposition that the varieties OF
mankind they exist at the present day. existed
at the creation of world. He would proceed to prove
it by the Bible: Adam and Eve were created last
of human kind That other varieties existed at the
time proven by the Mosaic history When Cain had
slain Abel and barshed to the land of Nod he
planned of the severity of the DOOM because whoever
should meet him would STAY him. Nod meant. in the
ancient Hebrew the land of the mscreant and the saw
age and inhabited by miscreans and Savages at the
time of Gains punishment Besides told that in
those days the children of God nernarried with the
sons and daughters of men, another proof that differ
ent varieties existed Physiology proved the separate
origin of mankind They different in muscular de-
velopment in color and intellectual capacity Climate
could work no permanent change in the of the h
skin, for the whtest Indians exist between the
tropics the inhabitants of Central America and the
blacks nearest the poles the Esqumaux! The story
OF a male and female of all animals having been pre-
served in the Ark was written in for the Ark was
not large enough to hold the different varieties the dog
alone Moses had erred in his history of the Genesis
The not made, there described to give l;rh
by day to this little world the give light by
sucn IL supp0SltlOn would tend to make
greater subservien to the lesser Creation had noblcr
objects. Animals that according to the Mosaic account
in the Ark when it dscmbogued on Ararat coula
not by any possibility have cmgrated to the regions
which they inhabit, The seal and the polar bear
would to reach the climates suited their natures have
to the tord and the rattlesnake of the sou
must have passed the frozen encounterg chances
of climate that would inevitably have produced death
How then solved the difficulty of their occupancy Of
the different regions The question easily answered
for that 0mnipotent Intelligence that could create uni
of animals that nhabit the earth with an organization
adapted to the temperature in which they are placed
They were created where they found to exist
The heat of the could have permanent effect I'm
the color OF the human skin We have accounts of tho
African. who black three thousand years ago only
one thousand years after his creation and if the heat of
tropical could backen his skin one thousand veYr
why under change OF circumstances and in te,ner
ate climate he not restored to his original whitencss
The lay in the physical organization of the race
The negro of North America in the last three hundred
years instead Of becoming whittier under the influence o
"A temperate climate had grown blackcr!
We have not space give synopsis of this enter
tanning and instructive discourse The Doctor eoncuded
by saying that ne would not probably lecture again Tho
audience too thin He did not like drum science
into the heads of people who Hing to recnv,
it, it any qualification to him to give rr;tuons
instruction and pay Tor the privilege etc.
He declared this to be probably his last lecture n,uch
to the regret of the few assembled who had been so e
fed by his excellent discourse