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king over all the East, and again as speedily have disappeared. 

 Here unceasingly, since the earth has been tenanted by man, has 

 been witnessed the spectacle of myriads jostling against myriads, 

 of empires clashing with empires ; yet Asia is Asia still, a vast 

 sea of humanity that stagnates over half the world. From these 

 sad contemplations we turn to Europe, the birth-place of pro- 

 gress, the home of refinement. Select from the chart of earth 

 that spot, the blackest with mountains, the most jagged with 

 stormy seas, and every way the most unpromising of any the 

 sun beholds, and you have marked the land of civilization's 

 nativity. In this bleak corner sprung up those fair favorites of 

 nature who have ever gloried in advancement as the state alone 

 congenial to them, and who are nobly bearing onward all that is 

 enlightened in humanity. 



Who now will say, what, other than native character, produced 

 these astonishing differences? What, but the impress of the 

 Creator's hand at their origin, made the white man civilized, the 

 dark man half civilized, the red man savage, and the black man 

 brutish ? It is no answer to say that education or state of society 

 might gradually have wrought the diversity; for the question 

 again reverts back upon those very influences ; and we ask, what 

 occasioned their existence, or what brought them to affect separ- 

 ately each species as a whole, distinguishing it from every other ? 



Again, who will show the external causes which have made 

 the European, from the very infancy of his being, the lord and 

 arbiter of earth? Behold the monuments of the Macedonian, 

 reared on the Indus and on the Nile. Behold Asia and Africa 

 cowering before the resistless Csesars. The hosts of Persia cross 

 into Europe for conquest, but scatter in fright and dismay when 

 the bold Greek comes out to battle. The Saracens make the 

 sweeping circuit of the " midland sea," and plant the crescent of 

 Islam in the heart of Europe ; but speedily again recoil before 

 the chivalrous Franks. The Spaniards' rude cannon is heard on 

 the plains of the Aztecs, and forthwith the conquest of the 

 " White Gods" is extended wide as their terrible fame. While 

 the dark races have ever bowed a willing neck to the most abject 

 'despotisms, and while every revolution throughout the East has 



