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The Unity of the Human Race

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Mr.. EDITOR AS this has become,
once more, a much-mooted question
among politicians and djvines, permit
an old subscriber to put his case in brief
through your excellent paper.
Did all the varieties of the genus ho-
mo descend from common ancestry,
or did each distinct variety have dis
tinct and separate origin.
We take the position that in the be-
ginning God created three distinct va
rieties of the human race--the white,
the red and the black. He gave to
each peculiar organic structure, and
the other shades OF color and form was
produced by miscegena.ion. Our rea-
sons for such belief are: lst. The
vast difference in color Of skin and
form of skull and other parts of the
human frame cannot be satisfactorily &C.
counted for on any other hypothesis, I'd.
We know as an incontrovertible fact,
that the product of the white and black
race is u great improvement on the ne
groin color Of skin, formation of
skull, and, in fact, the whole physical
structure becomes more symmetrical.
The forehead becomes high and promi-
nent, the nose less fiat, the lips thin,
and marked expression ofintelligence
bcaming in the eye and features, all an
guing a new variety Of oar race, were we
to discover country inhabited only By
mulaNocs i!
And, 3rd. The peculiar adaptedness
of the .hreeVarieties TO those divisions
of the earth in which they lived respect
lively, until the laws of Nature were vi.
olated by the ambition and cupidity Of
the superior white race.
The black man was created (not to
be q slave, but to work out his desti
ny amid the gorgeous scenery and burn
ing sands ofAIrica. The red man was
intended to occupy, (and did occupy,
until driven therelrom,) the temperate
zone of the globe; and the white race,
upon which the Creator has been
pleased to bestow the largest brain and
the greatest inventive powers,) being
more capable Of providing warm clo-
thing for self-protcction, was intended
to occupy the more extreme latitudes. .
The advocates OF the unity of the hu
man race insist that the difference in
color of skin and general formation is
rhe result of climate, food, mode ofliv-
inc &C., which is extremely absurd to
an observant mind and they cite some
isolated cases to support their theory.
If that were true, white man, be-
coming black by residing several years
in Africa, would on his return to this
latitude, be restored to his pristine
white, and the negro, who goes to Can
ada ought to become white man,
for, l dare assert, there are negroes in
Canada who live on the same diet and
nursue the same vocation of the best
class of whites, and he is the same an
CHANGED and unchangable negro that
God made him. 1t is utterly impossi-
bic for .he Ethiopian to change the col
or of anything produced by the pc
culiar organic structure of the object
e. e., the negroes skin is black, because
Creative Wisdom so made him that he
absorbs all the seven primary colors Of
light, and hence negro is nota colored
man, but he is destitute of color, and
the white is thorough mixture of all
the colors. Then, if the color Of the
skin is determined by the cha acter of
the matter beneath the skin, the logic
al conclusion is indisputable that the
negro or black man has the same or
oanic structure that he had in the be-
ginning, (for like begets like } and the
laws of Nature are unchangable. So
of the white man and the red man. To
reason otherwise is to annul the fixed
laws of Optics as taught in all standard
works it is also disregarding the laws
of Nature and common sense.
The only logical conclusion TO be
reached from these scientific deductions
is that God created, at certain periods
of the worlds growth, the three varie-
ties Of the Human race, giving to each
of the three character or kind Of mat
ter beneath the skin, (pcrhaps in the
structure of the cuts veri itself in the
white race rejecting all the primary
colors of ght; in the red man reflect
ing q mixture of the red and orange
colors, forming brownish red, and in
the black man a complete absorption
of the seven primary colors, viz: the
violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, or
,angc, and red. The amalgamation ofthc
white and black race produces muc- :
dy white or light black, showing the
fyedness and uniformity of Natures