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globe. But these differences must have b-en 

 derived frora qli.natc, fooj, manner of livinL^ 

 or some other circu r.3taiice ; for they certainly 

 were not derived from a diilerent origin, or any 

 particular local creation. 



The constitution of man appears to be the 

 same, in every part of the globe. Nature has 

 given to him the same physical and moral pow- 

 ers, capable of different degrees of improvement 

 according to the state of society in which he 

 shall be placed. But in no country, or part of 

 the gfobe, does man aopear to be an animal of 

 climate. Among animals nothing is more ap. 

 parent, than that some are animals of climate ; 

 that is, they are fitted by nature and constitution 

 to some particular part of the globe ; where a. 

 lone they can subsist, multiply, and obtain their 

 proper perfection. Thus the animals peculiar 

 to the torrid and frigid zone, never leave their 

 particular climates out of choice ; and when a 

 change of climate is forced upon them, they de- 

 generate, and waste away. It is evident that 

 man is not such an animal. He can multiply, 

 and attain his proper perfection in all the vari- 

 ous climates of the earth. Nature has not fur- 

 nished him with any kind of covering, fitted to 

 a hot, to a temperate, or to a cold climate : 

 This is left to his own reason and industry, ac- 

 cording as his situation may require. Nor' has 

 nature assigned to him any particular, invaria- 

 ble colour. Black is the absence or want, and 

 white is the mixture of all colours : And these 

 are the extremes between which, all the various 

 complexions fall; Nature therefore has not as- 

 signed to maa any covering, or any invariable 



