Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-07-22
For the Monmouth Weekly Herald.
The Human Race.

No su bJect offers to the inquirinr mind
a greater hcld for observation and re-.
Election, than the study Of the different
animate objects that people the earth, the
most important of which, ia the Human
Race.
1t is a well known fact that q race Of
bfpeds.has long existed upon the earth
infesting both sea and land, scattering
terror and desolation among the other
inhabitants, and inaicting on them either
bondage or determination, at will. This
then, is the class we have been pleased to
call decidedly human. The great distin
gushing difference between the mind Of
man, and that Of the brute, was for a lons
time thought to be his reasoa, while the
brute was supposed to be wholly devoid
OF this faculty. limo and careful obssr.
walton are fast demolishing this hastily
erected fabric but, however much tbs
Atheist and In6del may chuekls over the
failnigs of those who have had good al
their heart, it cannot be denied that there
is one property Of mind, which through.
out all the regions Of the earth dwslls in
the human brain alone.
The deer and the antelope are satisfied
with there homs on their native hills
- tisak~and the rhinoasros iEd abnnd.
~ Sc upon which to feast their savage
minds, while wandering over the wild
plains of Africa ; but man, no matter
whether he tenants his Greenland hut
repose in the cooling arbor Of the Ban
MAN tree, OIL lead a jelly life on the bread
ocean, still we find him m~editating on
some kind of futurity. The haunts of
the wild barbarian are filled with the i'm
ages Of blind alteration.
The rude savage, as he lies down to
repose on the fallen leaves of his native
forest, is then dreaming of q home be.
yond the ether of heaven. Climate and
other surrounding circumstances have a
great influence on the mental and physi.
cal constitution of the human family but
man can boast of one advantage over ali
the animals of the earth.
The polar bear, and the huge waIrus.
cannot leave their 10y home to dwell on
the broad Sahara the crocodile and the
-serpent, cannot visit the regions where
the rocks Of eternal snow and ice glitter
in the gray twilight but mans superior
mind can find him a secure abode in the
frightful regions of the earth, or protect
him from the frightful roar Of, the tenn
pest, on the rugged plains OF the
north. 1t is true he cannot take wings
and soar aloft with the early morning. or
dwell with the Shiny monster Of the deep,
but his ingenuity has borne him far above
the eagles home ; and in his huge ship
be can ride proudly over the slumberine
ocean-the home Of the whale and the
walrus.
tits the opinion Of many that all the
great multitudes of the human family
the dwarfsh Esquimaax, the swarthy
Ethiopian, and the fair C~arcassian. ara
the descendants Of the same common pa.
rents. If this proposition be true, it but
affords an example of the vicissitades and
and accidents to which human life is sub.
ject.
The children of the same fond parents
are Scattered throughout all the regisns
of the earth. They have found a home
on the t~racklsss deserts, the dark pillows.
and the brawny old Indian.
BLUE BALL.