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supposes that he to whom all nature is made subservient, whose 

 manor is the Earth, whose realm of thought the Universe, is but 

 a favored chimpanzee, and undistinguished from it by the cre- 

 ative hand of the Deity. But there is a particular race of men 

 in which have always centered His most marked providences. 

 Yet we are told that this is but a chance variation from the rest ; 

 as if, while in one case providental agency was applied in aid of 

 creative power, in another and for the attainment of the same 

 grand result, He could combine it only with accident. On the 

 bounds of Europe were erected those mighty barriers of mount- 

 ains and seas which have ever kept within their own allotted 

 homes the hordes of Tartary and the nomads of the South, while 

 that favored land rested in quiet until the dawn of its glorious 

 day. During more than twenty centuries Jehovah instructed 

 and watched over His chosen tribes. But when, by His agency, 

 the civilization of the East had been borne to the classic shores 

 of Europe, and all things were adapted according to His eternal 

 purpose, He compelled even reluctant Israel to deliver over to 

 the favored race the trust of His sacred religion. And again, 

 when the time had come that the nations of Southern Europe 

 must be renovated, or Christianity and man's advancement be- 

 come extinct, He stirred up the countless tribes of the North, 

 whose incursions beyond the Alps gave the grand impetus to 

 modern progress. Surely the hand of God has marked the 

 course of the white man. There is a glorious destiny to which 

 He is guiding him, and for which He created him. Providence 

 then, as well as reason and research, indicates an original diver- 

 sity of races. 



