2-±4 METHODS AND RESULTS OF ETHNOLOGY. 



forms we meet with in the various regions of the 

 earth, by the effect of the climatal and other condi- 

 tions to which they were subjected. 



The advocates of this hypothesis are divisible 

 into several schools. There are those who repre- 

 sent the most numerous, respectable, and would-be 

 orthodox of the public, and are what may be called 

 (i Adamites," pure and simple. They believe that 

 Adam was made out of earth somewhere in Asia, 

 about six thousand years ago; that Eve was 

 modelled from one of his ribs; and that the progeny 

 of these two having been reduced to the eight per- 

 sons who were landed on the summit of Mount 

 Ararat after an universal deluge, all the nations 

 of the earth have proceeded from these last, have 

 migrated to their present localities, and have be- 

 come converted into Negroes, Australians, Mongo- 

 lians, &c, within that time. Five-sixths of the 

 public are taught this Adamitic Monogenism, as 

 if it were an established truth, and believe it. I 

 do not; and I am not acquainted with any man of 

 science, or duly instructed person, who does. 



A second school of monogenists, not worthy of 

 much attention, attempts to hold a place midway 

 between the Adamites and a third division, who 

 take up a purely scientific position, and require to 

 be dealt with accordingly. This third division, in 

 fact, numbers in its ranks Linnaeus, Buffon, 

 Blumenbach, Cuvier, Prichard, and many distin- 

 guished living ethnologists. 



