New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-23
SKETCHES OF LECTURES.
The Character aud influence of the AngIe-
saNons.
by REV. THEODORE PARKER.

last evening to hear the Twelfth Lecture Of the Peo-
! pies Course, which delivered by Rev. THEODORE
PAEKER, Of Boston The subjee Of his discourse was
Tie AugloSaxons Their Origin. Character. and In.
fuenoe. Being introduced to the audience al eight
O'Clock, the lecturer proceeded without mauuscrpt or
/ notes to speak Is follovs:
LADIES AND GESTLENEN Mankind Il one. There
/ Is one genus Man; species Man; variety Man
all the same. But, for convenience sake mon-philo
sophca men-haye distributed mankind into various
races milking fve-namely-to begin, as we commonly
suppose, 81 the bottom scale The African, or black
! race; ihe American, or red race; the Malsy and
/ the Mongoan or yellow race, not very COM
monty Disseminated from one another; aud
/ last, tie Caucasian or white race III Of
these agree in their fundamental characterist.cs
/ and make up Mankind They differ from another
in various special charactertes and distributed
/ into these FIVE races. Thus Humanity is one as my
hand; and yet, diverse. as these five fingers There
those who maintain that these Eve distinct races
came into existence ~ tie creative hand Of God in the
/ order which lhave named. nsmely-ihat the African
is the oldest the American next then comes the Malay
/ and the Moneoian and las; Of all the Caucasisn.-
There those who fancy that they find in the geolog
ca structure Of the earth proofs Of this thing
They find OF fancy that they fad, thai Africa ia the
ofhe South Sea the Islands OF ASIA and the continent
OF Europe / cannot think that this a philosophical
jVdfneat-only philosophical guess. There are not
scts of science enough to warrant the geological
cluson Of history enough the ethnographic judg.
/ ment. ! set il down az a guess of judgment
80 much for mankind in general and these Eve sew.
era races into which humanity has been distributed.
TIC appreciate the character of any family Of men.
it Is necessary to kaow Humanity first and then. the
characteristics of the special which the par
ticuar family belongs. But in apPrcciatns the char
hcter Of any Of these races you must judge by
its center, and not by It's circumference; Tor in the
ter the Caucasian differs widely from the Malay
\ Monaghan; but when you come TO the circumference
this difference is not marked Nature gives adiyi
udis not ccssrs and men make classes Of indi-
yduals for convenience sake. This also in the
classification Of men Now shall omit for the future
the African the American, the Malay and the Monso-
lian, and speak only Of the Caucasian Of men.
The Caucasian differs from the others in this respect
be has the humane qualities qualities Of manhood
in eminent decree He hes the instinct Of Progress
10 greater extent than any other race Of men he is
vigorous in pressing more than the others and intel
leotual than the other raccs warlnSc than
they because he fights with his head : well his
hand and after ALL il is intellect that conquers not
hstsi The Cauca IAN has often been master to the
other been STARE. lie has sometime. car
ried BIZ religion 70 other races OF mcn-nevcr taken
theirs or himself In history al religions ars eau
caslau-the Hebrew, Classic, Greek, Mohammsdsn
ard Christian Il is rare that any Cnr race u men
adopts the form Of religion of another Buddhism be-
gun with Buddha some Eve centuries before Christ,
and spread, in three four centuries isom India 70
China, Ceyon and tie empire Of Japan, and, out Of
four hundred millions q Chinese, three hundred mil
lions have accepted ofthis religion On The other -idc,
say The Caucasian does not accept hs religion from
the othCr races whom he re,riis inferior to himself
All the rrea, lorms Of limited government, Caucs-
sian Bopublcs Democratic, Arstoc-acios, Limited
Monsrchles-,hCsc are AL OF the Caucasian origin
China ana Turkey are both governed by Despctism,
though limited it is true The Turk il a despot lin
its by the po. snard. The Empire Of China is limited
ty the fear. And all the great sciences are OF
Caucasian origin all the great inventions which dig
nfy civilization at this day from the stock.
The Leniure il Of the origin and oil the great
romance also. The Hebrew, H.nGoo Persian Arabian,
Greek Roman, Spanish Italian ami French languages;
aId almost all the great who have been distin-
guishcl Tor the high characteristics Of humanity one
exception there Is 10 this and very eminent one.
refer the Chinese philosopher Confucius The yrcut
leaders in rel non Caucsslsn. Moses, Zorosstcr
Buddha- Pytha srss and Jesus Of Nazareth. and Mar
tin Luther-these are oil Caucasisns. This CGuca-
elan family has spread Ear and wide Its origin seems
10 have been somewhere on the Islands Ct Asia Thus
spread South and formed the two great Irsnan and
Aren families from which have the fiindOos, the
Persisns and all other collaterss Of the other stem
To the Caucasian race belongs the Arabian, Hindoo,
Syrian the Hebrew the Egyptian ard most all the IN
habants OF Europe and the desce niaRs Of course OF
ths Europeans These divided into various fanii-
lies Let me mention the order Of their historic on
gin and their geographical spread; and lie, give
you, IN word condemned map OF the naiionaas Of
Europe.
The earliest Caucasian family that ind extending
West IN Europe Is the bern Base Next we mad IN
South OF Europe a race viii call the Pessgie. In
this term ! Will include the primitive Inhabitants OF
Greece and Italy and the Austrsns and UmbrAns.
Then. third the classics include the ancient Greeks
and Romans These occupied tire S0uih Of Europe
Then there are great Celue family, occupying the
North OF Europe Eve Elk centuries before Christ
eno, Eth was tie Teutoac family who occupied the
center Of Europe and were pressin- Westward
some four centuries before Christ Then another
race j. tie great SlAvonic family The modern Rus
.ians their represe Natives These are the great
Cancassisn families that occupy the greater portion Of
Europe TO this day. Two families OF The AOnsOlan
rsoe have ESQ penetrated Into Europe one u The
Hungarian Who came into the country on horseback
in tie Ninth Century The aplaniers m the North oil
OF Europe, Of that family. The Magyar Is
also Of the stock Then there the Turks VINO
have penetrated into Eurepe and sill hold possession
there.
This i. condensed ethnogTHphe map OF the nAt'on-
AEss Of Europe Among these families = the 1euonac
Thar Is an exceedingly powerful Of raeu, L divided
mo three rea; stes-the Gothic Germans AID Scan
dsnxyian sterns.
The lecturer here spoke =; considerable length Of
the general characteristics 81 The Teuionie AGy, r.
nnarkip. TIA; iAey bad Intense love Of ndlvhiaA
liberty. and they possessed strong socially Of IA
,ure-s tendency % sroupe ento-rther. Tney never
readily sscenfed 70 despOusm. They have also oeeA
........irs and eNfermiua,nrr 4. a rAce. they ever