OR, A TREATISE ON PILE. 107 
subsequent page, (431,) he adds, ‘that in large families of mulattoes (of half-blood parents) 
it is quite common to find several of the children as light colored as if one parent was 
white, and another portion of the children as black asif one parent were a pure negro.” 
All these different phases speak in different languages, but they proclaim the same 
sentiment of natural abhorrence to the amalgamation of species ; while, by the connection 
of two individuals belonging to the same species, the stock is uniform, permanent, inde- 
structible and ineffaceable—no change of time, food, climate, nor circumstances, can 
materially alter, much less sweep it away; as witness the cases of the Jews and the 
Gipsies, whose races have out-lived the records of the most ancient history. 
“Tt is by the exclusion of all foreign mixtures (says Humboldt) that species are pre- 
served.” 
And even Dr. Prichard (who has shown such an anxiety to reduce the white man and 
the negro to the same category) tells us, (in Researches, &c., v. 2, p. 341,) that “ separate 
species of organized beings do not pass into each other by insensible degrees.” 
What Van Amringe has remarked in regard to the variation of the color of the skin of 
the children of mulattoes, we have found to correspond in the diversity in the organization 
of the pile, which is found sometimes corresponding with that of one parent, and at others 
with that of the other parent, and at others, still, resembling the pile of both, in different 
filaments; thus furnishing ample proof that there does not there exist, that joint inheritance 
of the characteristics of both parents, so remarkable when the progeny is derived entirely 
from one species, though of different varieties. ‘This experience ought to serve as a warn- 
ing to the American Sheep breeder, whose object is to produce a race enjoying equally the 
good qualities of both parents. . 
The natural disgust planted in the minds of all animals to the mixture of species, seems 
to have been wisely pre-ordained, in order to preserve the purity and beauty of creation. 
By the formation of species order was proclaimed, but it can be maintained by this natural 
feeling alone. Without such a feeling, the law of the harmony of species, throughout 
the immense varieties of created beings, which now people and beautify the earth, the air 
and the sea, would be utterly destroyed, and the whole animal commonwealth would be 
converted into a disgusting assemblage of unsightly monsters! 
God has wisely and kindly given to each species of animals the intelligence, the 
instinct, and the organs exactly fitted for their respective stations; but, by such a general 
amalgamation, his wisdom and kindness would be rendered entirely abortive, and his 
designs for the happiness of his creatures annulled. Organs would be taken away from 
animals to whom they are invaluable, and conferred upon others to whom they would be 
an incumbrance. Propensities, which are the happiness of one species, would be torn 
from them to be imposed upon another to make them mzserable. 
It is no objection to our position that such crosses are sometimes allowed to be produc- 
tive, to a limited extent; for, after the lapse of a few generations, the progeny either pass 
over to the side of one or other of the progenitors, and the abnormal race is thus expunged 
forever from that polluted page of the fair volume of nature, or the breed, from a natural 
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