Nebraska advertiser., 1862-12-06
For the Nebraska Advertiser.
Diversity OF Human Races.
CORPORAL

NIX. GDllOh 4 AphC llCAuCntJ AOOAN
this topic debated il conversations, and
even lately: some maintaining the afir-
native on the subject, and others the
negative. 1t is a falsehood, exclaimed
some men. with vehemence that all men
have the same origin-that all men are
descendants of Adam and Of Noah. We
have already, at least, sever or eight
species of men upon earth, viz, the
White, the Negroes, the Moors, the
Tartars, the Laplanders, the Patagonians,
the Albinos, the American Indians
Shall we give to all these different spe-
cIes Of men the same origin? As well
give a common origin to dogs and wolves,
to rabbits and foxes, which are of a diff
erenI species, and of which one does not
come from the other.
The difficulty of which it is a question
here was for a while, and is, even now
with some persons, like a cry Of war; if
we may so express ourselves but a
more enlightened philosophy has and
does reject such a futile and ruinous doc
trine. In the following assertions and
remarks, / intend to throw some light
and fix some ideas on the diversity of
human races, as far as l am able, and
you may publish them if you think
proper:
ASSERTION 1sT,-There IS, on the whole
known surface Of the globe, but one and
same species of man.
H. EPPLANATIoN.-All the inhabitants of
our globe, from North to South, from
last 10 West, have everywhere the same
essential constituting elements, the same
Obstructive and specific characters, m
ly: the same structure of bones, Of mus
cles, of nerves, of fbers, of flesh; the
same order, the same arrangement, the
same destination in all the fundamental
parts Of that admirable edifce the same
construction and the same formation in
the organs, destined to offer to our view
sensible objects the same way and the
progression in the formation, the nutri-
ton, the growth and the decline of the
indiyIdual the same means of preserv-
ing, Of reproducing, of multiplying their
species; the same number of intellectual
faculties, designed to enlighten them on
the present, on the past, on The future,
on animate and inanimate objects, on
physical and moral good.
The organization on which depend
mostly, in all men, the action and play of
all intellectual and sensible faculties, is
more perfect in some than in other for
instance, in the Europeans than in the
Africans, in certain individuals than in
other individuals, according to the diver
sity of the climates they inhabit, of the
air them breathe, of the food they take,
Of the mode Of life they lead, of the edu-
cation they receive, of the temperament
they have but the fundamental part of
the organization is everywhere the same;
and this fundamental part differs but ac-
cidentaly by a little more or a little less
d%elicacy or strength, suppleness or rigid
ity, mobility or torpidity in the organs.
All men, black or white, civilized or
uncivilized, are perfectible, not only in
the physical and mechanical play of their
organs, bat also in their ideas, in their
tho's, in their sentiments, in their man
ners. in their morals and this constitutes
in them the intellectual pertecti5iiity, per-
fectibility which essentially distinguishes
them from every other living species.-
This intellectual perfec!Ibility is not equal
in all nations and in all individuals but
everywhere it exists, and everywhere it
shows itself and is felt, either in the way
Of knowledge, or in the way of senti-
ments, to a certain degree, in man, at the
expulsion of every other living and ami
mate species.
One and the same construction, one and
the same organization, n and the same
intelleclion, one and the same destination
of the whole and every part of that
whole, evidently demonstrate in all ha-
man races. one and the same nature. one
and the same species; therefore there is
but one and the same species of men;
therefore human species is not snscepti-
bic Of any fundamental subdivision in the
way Of nature.
REMARks.- 1. In The animal kingdom