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colour, In figure, and in hair ; which lad is a very diftinguifhing 

 charaderiftical mark of our fpecies. Thus, in Africa and fome other 

 parts of the world there are men with black fkins, thick lips, 

 flat nofes and woolly black hair. In other countries of the fame la- 

 titude, there are men of black fkins indeed and of black hair, but of 

 as fine regular features as any European, and their hair not woolly 

 but ftraight : This is the cafe of the Eaft Indians. And again, in 

 the fame latitudes, you have men whofe ikins are as fair as ours, 

 though their hair be black but not woolly, and their features are as 

 regular as ours : This is the cafe of the Chinefe. In the fame latitudes 

 on the other fide of the globe, the men are red, with ftraight black 

 hair, and the features much fuch as ours, with a difference, which a 

 curious eye will obferve, even in the features of the different na- 

 tions of Europe. 



It will, I know, be fald by the Matcrlalifls, that, befides the dif- 

 ference of climate, and of heat and cold, there is a difference of foil 

 and of water, and a difference of food which that foil and that, 

 water produces.. 



To this I anfwer, that, if, in the fame country, where the climate^ 

 the foil, the food, and the water, are the fame, we find men altogether 

 different in their bodies, and particularly in the colour, which is one 

 of the mofl flriking differences of men, that difference cannot be owing 

 to any of the caufes affigned by thofe philofophers. Now, this is the 

 cafe in America ; for, among the red men there, we have a tribe of 

 black men, who, like the Eaft Indians, have flraight black hair, and 

 regular features : Thefe are the Mofquito Indians. 



As to Mind, if the differences of Body cannot be accounted for 

 from bodily caufes, much lefs can the difference of Minds, by 



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