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animal which stands at the bottom. In both cases, in the 

 article of quality, the new and very artificial breeds stand 

 decidedly below all their competitors. To them must be 

 awarded the merit of producing a coarse article in great 

 abundance and at a low price, suited to those whose appe- 

 tites are keen and not critical, and whose means are 

 limited ; whereas the old races will furnish an article of 

 higher quality for those whose tastes incline, and whose 

 means permit, them to be more fastidious. Whether any 

 individual farmer shall produce one article or the other 

 must be left to his own decision ; and, if wise, he will 

 decide the point on the same grounds of position, facilities, 

 and connexion which determine a cotton-spinner to make 

 forties cotton-twist, or to make one-hundred-and-sixties ; 

 and which determine a calico-printer to manufacture prints 

 for ladies, or prints for housemaids. 



Our readers will have observed further that in all these 

 lucubrations we have made a marked distinction between 

 races and breeds, and we wished to state the basis on which 

 that distinction rests. Of late years certain sages have 

 brought prominently before the public a science to which, 

 in the prevailing rage for a Greek nomenclature, they have 

 given the name of Ethnology. This science occupies itself 

 in investigating the localization, the affinities, and the dis- 

 tinctive qualities of the various races of men. It is a cir- 

 cumstance which we would rather call satisfactory than 

 singular, that the observations made and the facts collected 

 made and collected with true philosophic indifference as 

 to the conclusion to which they might tend all lead to the 

 belief that mankind have sprung from one original pair. 

 At this conclusion, on grounds merely philosophical, Cuvier 

 and Humboldt have both arrived. We call the conclusion 

 satisfactory, because it may re-assure some very worthy 

 people, who discountenance philosophical investigations 

 because they entertain narrow-minded apprehensions that 

 revelation will not be able to take care of itself. As men 

 multiplied, their different families were placed in different 



