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eloquent, valiant, and indefatigable. It has been the 

 master stem from all antiquity ; and, in particular, that 

 ambitious race, which is distinguished by high fea- 

 tures, has ever been the conquering, the imperious 

 form, that commands in battle and rules in peace, 

 wherever it is found mixed in the social life of na- 

 tions. Although beauty, valour, and logical capacity, 

 may not by any means be denied the more vertical 

 profiles ; yet mathematical, linguistic, and experimen- 

 tal science, belong more permanently to the less ad- 

 mired lines of features. It is by the exercise of these 

 faculties, tempered with forbearance, that the resolute 

 tenacity of the last mentioned maintains its ground, 

 and the public will obtain modifications of the arbi- 

 trary canons which the others have imposed. 

 . It is the Caucasian Man, who, in all regions and times, 

 has been the sole depositor of religion. The Papua 

 and Negro races of antiquity do not appear to have 

 possessed creeds at any period deserving to be classed 

 with reasoned allegorical dogmas; they were merely 

 absurd injunctions to commit revolting bloodshed. 

 Even when palliated, remodelled, and systematized by 

 the influence of Caucasian rulers, they continued more 

 to degrade the masters than to elevate the vanquished. 

 Of the Mongolians, we know that the mythological 

 Foh, the Budhas, Fologes, Soloktais, and Siakas, or 

 Sakias, of China and Japan, were appropriated Hindu- 

 Caucasians, Yuchi, or Asiatic Finns. The bearded 

 races alone had possession of a true reminiscence of 

 the diluvian cataclysis, and transmitted it by their 



