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fluous. Surely no one can now be found to assert 

 that any two stocks of mankind differ as much as a 

 chimpanzee and an orang do; still less that they are 

 as unlike as either of these is to any New World 

 Simian! 



Lastly, the granting of the Polygenist premises 

 does not, in the slightest degree, necessitate the 

 Polygenist conclusion. Admit that Negroes and 

 Australians, Negritos and Mongols are distinct spe- 

 cies, or distinct genera, if you will, and you may 

 yet, with perfect consistency, be the strictest of 

 Monogenists, and even believe in Adam and Eve as 

 the primaeval parents of all mankind. 



It is to Mr. Darwin we owe this discovery: it is 

 he who, coming forward in the guise of an eclectic 

 philosopher, presents his doctrine as the key to 

 ethnology, and as reconciling and combining all 

 that is good in the Monogenistic and Polygenistic 

 schools. It is true that Mr. Darwin has not, in so 

 many words, applied his views to ethnology; but 

 even he who " runs and reads " the " Origin of 

 Species" can hardly fail to do so; and, further- 

 more, Mr. Wallace and M. Pouchet have recently 

 treated of ethnological questions from this point 

 of view. Let me, in conclusion, add my own con- 

 tribution to the same store. 



I assume Man to have arisen in the manner 

 which I have discussed elsewhere, and probably, 

 though by no means necessarily, in one locality. 

 Whether he arose singly, or a number of examples 



