BREEDING FROM THE SAME RACE. 



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size, though retaining its plumpness, and beautiful 

 ajmmetry. The evil, however, does not terminate in 

 the production of these symptoms. Internal diseases 

 ensue, such as disorganization of the liver, or rot, 

 polypi in the trachea, clyers, malformation of the 

 bones of the neck and legs, and general deformity." 

 This position, however, will be strengthened by 

 drawing attention to insulated portions of our race, 

 where the effects of such a system are exhibited on 

 a considerable scale. The Members of the Society 

 of Friends were, at one time, supposed to be of all 

 others the least subject to insanity ; but the very reverse 

 is the case ; being, from the limited nature of their 

 sect, driven to frequent intermarriages, and to a conse- 

 quent deterioration of the most active part of the 

 human frame — the brain. It is for the same reason, 

 that almost every royal family contains a large propor- 

 tion of idiots, or, at the best, persons of very weak 

 intellect ; and, such will continue to occur, till legisla- 

 tors fall on some plan of striking at the ground- 

 work of the mischief. If the laws of God and man 

 define to us so clearly the evils of intermarrying with 

 relatives ; and if, as all animals are constructed on one 

 grand plan, we admit the proximity of the sheep to the 

 human race, it follows, that what is destructive, in this 

 respect, to the one, is destructive to the other; and that 

 we should seek, by a nearly similar, if not wider, range 

 of rules, to obviate many of those diseases of which, 

 when under our protection, they are so frequently the 

 subjects. 



(89.) Breeding from different families of the same 

 race — Mr Culley, though believing that no great harm 



