374 THE MORAL STATUS OF ALCOHOL. 



some future Cuvier or Buffon, Blumenbach or Owen, some 

 Huxley, Vrolik, Henslow, or Darwin, shall speculate upon the 

 negro's true status amongst the families or races of mankind, 

 the peculiarity noted by Captain Burton will be made a more 

 satisfactory basis of arrangement than the pigmentum nigrum, 

 the high malar bones, the prominent os calcis, the odor ^Ethi- 

 opicus, the crisped wool, the elongated os coccygis (which, 

 according to Professor Agassiz, gives such clear indications 

 of a rudimentary tail), or any of the special qualities of race 

 noted by ethnologists up to the time being. 



There is much reason to regret, on philanthropic grounds, 

 that the Burtonian deduction de osculatione should ever have 

 been promulgated : that is to say, I very much fear lest the 

 fact should be laid hold of by proprietors of negro slaves, to 

 justify the possession of their chattels. Intelligent people 

 need not be informed that some diversity of opinion has 

 hitherto existed amongst ethnologists relative to the cardinal 

 point whether negroes are or are not on an equality with 

 other races, but more especially the Caucasian race, physi- 

 cally and mentally : whether, to come to the point without 

 unnecessary delay, the negro race is or is not one naturally 

 inferior. 



Well, I fear that such of us as may have had doubts on 

 that point hitherto, will cease to have them ; that conviction 

 will take the place of uncertainty, and this in a sense most 

 unfavourable to the social comfort of the negro. Alas ! for 

 my part I am forced to the conclusion that a race, the op- 

 posite sexes of which do not kiss, must needs stand low in 

 humanity ! 



A third division of mankind has now to be indicated, as 

 being more suitable to the ends we have in view than either 

 of the preceding. For present purposes I shall establish a 

 division of mankind under the two categories of the creative 

 and the executive ; and in reference to this classification the 

 consequences shall presently be reasoned out that would have 



