The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-21

American wolf and the European wolf
are the same. In the northern ATTITUDES
Its color is white; in temperate ATTITUDES,
1T is gray; In Florida and Georgia, it is
black; in Missouri, it is clouded; in
Texas, it is red. These varieties differ
also i'll size and in the conformation of
the head and skull.
"The color of the skim" says De Qua
trefages, depends upon simple secre-
ton which is subject to medication under
number of circumstances. There is
therefore nothing strange that some hu-
man groups, differing widely in other re-
spects; should resemble each other in the
matter of color This is the reason why
the Hindoo (Aryan), and the Bisharee
and the Moor Semitic, although belong
ing to the White race, assume the same,
and even darker, hue than the true
Negro"
Take the case of the mioto cattle of
Buenos Ayres This race is of recent
origin, being descended from European
stock Qike all the American oxen). 1t
bears the same relation to other oxen
that the bulldog does to other dogs.
All the forms are shortened and thick
ened, the head especially being enlarged
and concentrated. De Quatrefages re-
marks: The inferior maxillary bone i.
so far exceeds the superior in length that
the animal is unable to browse the trees.
The Uranium is as much deformed as the
face; not only are the forms of the bones
modified, but also their relations, not one
of which, according to Prof Owen, has
been strictly preserved" All this has
happened in three hundred years.
The Hungarians are now a handsome
people, with regular European features.
In the ninth century, the same stock as
the degraded Ostiaks and Ugrians, they
came from the Ural Mountains with vel
lowish-red hair, broad noses, and squat
figures. The Turks in Europe have ac-
CURED fine oval skulls and other cores
ponding features
The Anglo-American race (the typical
Yankee), perfectly distinct type, has
been formed in about $50 years.
Now take these facts, and let us sup
pose certain descendants of Noah pecu-
liarly Marked and, driven out, it may
be, from the tribe, let us suppose them
to settle on the marshy plains of Nubia
or Central Africa. 1t is easy to fill out
the picture.
Professor Huxley makes the following
statement; elm the woods of Florida
there are great many pigs; and it is a
curious thing, that they are all black,
every one of them. Professor Wyman
was there some years ago; and on MOTTO
ing no pigs but these black ones, he asked
some of the people how it was that they
had no white pigs. The reply was, that
IN the woods of Florida, there was root
which they called the Paint Root; and
that if the white pigs were to eat any of
It, 1t had the effect of making their hoofs
crack, and they died; but if the black
pigs eat any of it, it did not hurt them at
ALL"
Now the malaria, it has been suggested,
may have done for the white and black
men in Africa what the Paint Root has
done for the white and black pigs in
Florida.
If some apparently trivial physiology
cal popularity should at very early
period have been impressed upon some
of the descendants of Ham, and, put
under the ban by the other tribes, they
should have become isolated in some
miasmatic, narshy district of Africa, is it
incredible that they should have formed
new breed of men? 1t would be no
more extraordinary than the black breed
of pigs in Florida.
Finally; why may not the diferentia-
ton of races have occurred before the
Flood2 why may not Hams wife have
been negress?