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violence. Says Gibbon, ' when they hunted the woods 

 for prey, it is said they attacked the shepherd rather 

 than his flock ; and that they curiously selected the 

 most delicate and brawny parts both of males and 

 females, which they prepared for their horrid repast. 

 If in the neighborhood of the commercial and literary 

 town of Glasgow, a race of cannibals has really exist- 

 ed, we may contemplate in Scottish history the opposite 

 extremes of savage and civilized life. Such reflections 

 tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas ; and to encour- 

 age the pleasing hope that New Zealand may produce 

 in some future age, the Hume of the southern hemis- 

 phere.' What is it that has raised us to such compar- 

 ative refinement and intelligence ? It is the operation 

 of the same causes which are now sweeping the clouds 

 from benighted Africa, and demolishing the bloody tesi- 

 ples of India and pouring the light of truth and love 

 upon the long desolated shores of Hawaii. It is the 

 blessed religion of Jesus Christ, proclaiming love to God 

 and love to man. 



III. THE CAUSES OF THE VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN 



SPECIF.S. 



The question has. been asked by many who have ob- 

 served the great diversity in the human family, Are 

 these all brethren 1 have they descended from one stock ? 

 or must we trace them to more than one ? and if so, 

 how many Adams must we admit? Upon this subject 

 we have no history but that given by Moses. Says Dr 

 Good, ' the only fair and explicit interpretation that can 

 be given to the Mosaic history, is that the whole hu- 

 man race has proceeded from one single pair, or in the 

 words of another part of the sacred writings "God made 

 of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell upon all 

 the face of the earth." The book of nature is'in this, as 

 in every other respect, in union with that of revelation ; 

 it tells us that one single pair must have been adequate 

 to all the purposes on which some philosophers have 

 grounded their objections ; and it should be further ob- 

 served to them that thus to multiply causes without ne- 



