468 MAN, PHYSICALLY CONSIDERED. 



and the Moors than the Spaniards. In the same way, 

 where different parts of the country differ much in lati- 

 tude and in temperature, the inhabitants may be browner 

 in the south, than in the north ; thus the women of Gre- 

 nada are said to be more swarthy than those of Biscay, 

 and the southern than the northern Chinese. For a similar 

 reason the same race may vary slightly in color, in differ- 

 ent countries. The Jews, for example, are fair in Britain 

 and Germany, browner in France and Turkey, swarthy 

 in Portugal and Spain, olive in Syria and Chaldea. An 

 English sailor who had been for some years in Nukahei- 

 wah, one of the Marquesas islands, had been so chang- 

 ed in color, that he was scarcely to be distinguished from 

 the natives.' 



' It is in reality,' says Good, ' from long and deeply 

 rooted habit alone that the black, red, and olive color of 

 the Ethiopian, American and Moguls, is continued in 

 the future lineage of so many generations, after their re- 

 moval into other parts of the world, and that nothing will 

 in general restore the skin (o its original fairness, but 

 a long succession of intermixtures with the European 

 variety. It is a singular circumstance that the black 

 color appears to form a less permanent habit, than the 

 red or olive ; for the children of olive and copper colored 

 parents, exhibit the parental hue from the moment of 

 birth, but in those of blacks it is usually six, eight or ten 

 months before the black pigment is fully secreted. We 

 also sometimes find this not secreted at all, whence the 

 anomaly of white negroes ; and sometimes only in inter- 

 rupted lines, or patches, whence the anomaly of spotted 

 negroes ; and we have even a few rare cases of negroes 

 in America who in consequence of very severe illness 

 have had the whole of the black pigment, absorbed and 

 carried off, and a white pigment diffused in its stead. 

 In other words, we have instances of a black man being 

 suddenly bleached into a white man. These instances 

 are indeed of rare occurrence ; but they are sufficient 

 to shew the absurdity of the argument for a plurality of 

 human stocks or species, for a mere difference in the 

 color of the skin; an argument thus proved to be alto- 

 gether superficial and which we may gravely assert to be 

 not more than skiti deep. 



