Year: 1871

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


In your issue Of the 18th "Quld Est veritas' at
tempted to answer the above question. l am thank
ful to him for the effort, but it IS FAR from being
satisfactory. According to his mode OF reasoning
could prove that all animals were originally the
same. Comparative anatomy shows a striking re.
sembance In the structure OF all vertebrated ami
mails: there Is not bone In the human body but
finds Its analogue In the brute; time, climate and
little stretch OF imagination would make the Differ
ence He says might claim, upon the ground on
which based my argument separate creation for
all the races OF men. Had he read my article more
carefully he would have seen that such was claimed
to be the case, unless where It is the result OF
amalgamaton. The Jews OF Cochin may be
Drowned by the sun, may adopt the costume as well
as the customs ofthe people among whom they dwell


and thus deceive careless observer, but without
amagamaton the natural outline OF their features
will forever remain the same and the removal to a
temperate climate Will IN one generation restore the
original appearance. Neither time nor climate can
place the eyes OF Caucasian in that oblque drec-
ton which Is so characteristic feature OF the Mon.
golan. The statement that the Jews are prevented
from marrying Foreigners by the strctness OF their
knows. They marry foreigners, provided, frst.
that all the rites and ordinances OF the jewish


Church are strictly conformed to. The Jews are
mixed race and believe from this cause, always
resemble the people among whom they are for a
long time soiourners. The argument drawn from


the "halry sheep" OF the West Indies is hardly


worth noticing Ii 1t proves anything 1t is that the
HAIR the heai OF the African should coarse aud
straight because heat changes wool to hair


This Is conclusive evidence that it was in his
case an original design. In regard TO color
he says what the negro gains over the white man by
his power OF radiation OF heat he loses by the In


crease III his absorptve powers, for all know that


one. This would be true If the heat III botn cases
were the same. Heat radia.ing rom the surface OF
an animal body always carries with 1t more or less
moisture. When poured out upon the skin more
rapidly than 1t can be evap0raed Is termed sensl


BILE perspraon otherwise insensiole, and it Is this
constant evaporation of the circulating fluids OF the


body that counteTacts the heat from without, for 1t
Is wellEnown fact that quick evaporation viii pro-
duce sense OF cold. presume nearly every per-


son Is familiar with the process oil freezing water by
It's own evaporation. The black man perspires more
prOfuselv than the white, and this is the direct result
of color; therefore IN his case the power OF radta


ton Is not balanced by the power OF absorption and


my "argumen5 from deslgn' still stands firm.


He says, again, that 1t Is the opinion OF
geologlsts that since the close of the tertiary


period no change OF any magnitude has taken place


IN the distribution OF land and water. From what
can gather the BELIEF exists among scIentiGc men
tnat since the advent uf man upon the earth the


aforementioned tract OF land has gradually sunk TO
the bottom OF the ocean, and only so but that u


gradual settling OF the bottom or the Indian Ocean
is still going on. How, otherwise, could we account


II such were not the case IL Is powerful argument
III favor OIL separate creation O. +. V. could not
IN this case ascrlbe the metamorphosis to climate.


According to his argument there Is no fear OF the
Indian race becoming extinct. The descendants OF
! the Puritans and Pilgrim Fathers Will IN
| time become real Indians, and thus keep up
| the original stock There Is not an argu-
| ment advanced In favor OF separate cfea-


tradicteo, While those opposed to 1t have totally
| fallen to the ground The true type OF any race


without admixture with Others Is, under ali circum.
/ stances, unalteraba- INQUIRER.