Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-02-12
The Five Races Of Man.


/ Man, gifted with speech and reason stands
alone in the order and genius to which ma,
ura!ists have referred his species, and vi
nay Justly regard him az the connecting link
between the material and the immatera
world. In addition to articulatc speech
artificial language and reasoning powers, the
physica! structure of men wildly separates
him iiom other portions of the mammilerous
class. By species We understand special
formation and special origin. Species has
its variety-that is common decent with.
ont hereditary transmission. Race cma.
mates from Species and it is variety fixed ol
confirmed. While VIC have but one species
! Of man, We have variety of races. Race
is established by climate and mode of living.
Food, manners, customs and climate produce
not only difference in sentiment, hut even
in the external form. We have five distinct
ruces-that is five varitics, so confirmed by
time, habits aud other Influences, as to be.
come fixed; or,n other words, five varieties,
with differences go strongly determined that
they arc perpetuated hercditarily. The
study Of races is an interesting one, leading
us into the most Intricate walks Of science.
Much diversity Of opinion prevails in
regard to racc, many Of the theories origin
a'ing in prejudice. A political view Of
race must necessarily be u prejudiced one
To arrive at truth We mus. view the qucs.
tion from pure scientific standpoint Tho
Rev. DR.. L. I. Winklcr recently delivered
discourse at Charleston on this subjec. of
race. lie reviewed the question calmly,
and argued with force. Adam was the first
progcnitov, and Noah saved the species from
destruction by the food. What various
races, y ,Niecturcr asks, shave sprung from
this original stock (Adams and Noah's, J
What influences have not food, climate,
hardship, luxury, the forest, the desert, the
soashorc, the mountain and the swampy
river cxcrted upon the children CT Noah I!
10 assign to him simply the white race as
his posicrity, is to leave without parantage
not tho African only, but three.fourths Of
the human race beside. Who then is the
prcgcnitor of the red Indian, the yellow
Nongol, Of the rcd brown Egytian and Phr-
nician, Of the bronzed colored Abyssinian,
of the olive and black Hindoo, of tho curly
headed blacks of Colchis-mentioncd by
IIcrolotus--of the black Persians, of the
black Caribs, whom Spanish discovercrs
found already established in the Western
hemisphere? To what ancestry shall VIC as
sign the Ho,ten,ots, Bushmen and Corans,
With their lemonpecl or dingy yellow color
negroes but not blacks? If hair, lips and
nose indicate race, what shall We do with
those in whom one or another of the dis
tinctivc marks docs not appear? Thus the
Abyssian has the Caucasian nose land what
is more, the Caucasian culture, with thick
lips and wosly hair. Is he q negro? The
black Hindoo has straight hair and Caucas.
ian features The yellow Mongol has fat
nose. The Jew is light complexioned on
the banks Of the Elbe, and black in Cochin,
where also the climate changes the dark
Portuguese into black man.
'Evcrywherc We SEQ the balancing OF
variation and pcrmanencc. Variety springs
from the type, the type remains, and the
variety is established. Deny this scientific
principle, and the origin of the human race
is mistcry, and cthnology, obscure enough
as it is becomes dream. One human
brute who speaks aud worships viii not suis
! ice \ hundred are needed and there il
as good reason for creating hunl.el Or 4
thousand as to invent one. "
I Species were created by God, and nature
holds inviolablc the stamp that he has
set upon his creatures Race, as generally
understood in the breeding world is the tri-
umph Of man. We can either make or de-
.troy it, and We can bring influences to bear
to greatly modify or completely change Ger
tain characteristics. The laws Of breeding
observed by man in the lower orders Of the
animal kingdom apply to man himself We
maintain fine races by selection, and secure
fine individuals by crossing However, we
soon destroy races by crossing; prominent
charac er Ii 3 are effaccd and species alor c
remains. The hereditary power preserve,
itself, and when science direct the course
distant from the regular channel after few
generations the power is destroyed and tho
current flows back to the fountain. head
There is always tendency to come back to
the prinlative type, and scientific combina.
tons cannot prevent the reproduction Of the
ancestral character. The five varieties oI
the human species have been firmly cstab