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most important agency ; for with any other head, or the head of any other 
race, it would be impossible to retain an upright position at all. But 
with the broad forehead and small cerebellum of the white man, it is per- 
fectly obvious that the Negro would no longer possess a centre of gravity ; 
and therefore, those philanthropic people who would ‘educate’ him into 
intellectual equality, or change the mental organism of the Negro, would 
simply render him incapable of standing on his feet, or of an upright position 
on any terms.”* 
We presume it will not be necessary for us to refute the assertions 
(adopted by the author as evidence of the specific difference between 
the Negro and the white man), that the Negro is “incapable of an erect 
or perpendicular position,” and that education would “ render him in- 
capable of standing on his feet, or of an upright position” ! 
The kings of Western Equatorial Africa, we are told, are under the 
necessity of encouraging the slave trade, in order to get rid of their 
criminals. 
«No one, we presume, will dare assert that there are no criminals in 
Africa! What shall we do with our criminals ? may be a problem which is 
occupying the attention of the political economist of Africa—lke His 
Majesty the King of Dahomey—as well as the government of Great Britain. 
Is Africa not to be allowed to export her criminals, or are they so worth- 
less and unmanageable that no people will have them ?” 
But it must not be supposed that the author advocates the slave- 
trade. Oh dear, no! He “protests against being put forward to 
advocate such views.” “Our Bristol and Liverpool merchants,” he 
says, “perhaps, helped to benefit the race when they transplanted 
some of them to America, and our mistaken Legislature has done the 
Negro race”—(why not species ?—merely the force of habit, we pre- 
sume)—“ much injury by their} absurd and unwarrantable attempts to 
prevent Africa from exporting her worthless or surplus population.” 
We have done; and if, after these extracts, our readers feel any 
desire to know more of the work, they must purchase it; for, although 
it is a tract such as we are ashamed to see printed in the English 
language, it has found a respectable publisher. 
Tue Baravian Socrery or ExprrRIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 
IN Rorrerpam.t 
WE desire to draw the attention of our leading Literary and Philo- 
sophical Societies to the plan adopted by the body of savants to whose 
prospectus we are about to refer, for encouraging the study of prac- 
tical science, and would recommend it to their consideration whether 
a similar method of awarding premiums for careful research would not 
add much to their usefulness and success. 
* The author is here quoting a Dr. Van Evrie of New York. The italics 
are ours. 
+ We again claim the italics; the grammar is the author's. 
t The Society’s ‘Programme,’ issued in December, 1863. Imprimerie de 
G. and C, A. Van Reyn, Rotterdam. 
