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from anarchy, and its elevation to greatness and perma- 

 nency, is to reject as a basis of ethics or code of social 

 integrity any author who teaches supremacy to any branch 

 or race of mankind. Equal rights and equal liberties must 

 be accorded alike to all, so that a basis of common rights 

 and equal law may be accorded to all ; otherwise the social 

 advance of mankind will be blocked by unequal and highly 

 egotistical assumptions ; and bondage of one branch of 

 mankind under the other must follow as the practical result 

 of such assumptions. Hence the Bible, which admits all 

 mankind to be one family, and demands equal law, with 

 widely different obligations according to natural gifts and 

 special privileges, must necessarily be the basis and starting- 

 point of true national ethics among mankind. To all these 

 general observations, it will be said that the dark tribes of 

 mankind are inferior to the white tribes, and the woolly- 

 haired can never compete with the straight-haired ; nor yet 

 the dark with the light and fair of mankind. 



Such talk is grand in the extreme. But, a hundred 

 generations back, what were the colour and features of our 

 progenitors ? Again, a hundred generations back, what 

 were the white people doing, and where did they live ? 

 In Central Asia ? in the wilds of Siberia ? or on the top 

 of the Himalaya Mountains ? It is to be feared that 

 the Dead Letter Office would give answer " Address not 

 known." 



You say the colour is nothing. Oh, indeed ! That is 

 nothing. Well, it is all features. Granted. The lady in 

 Egypt had a small and arched foot, small hand, and more 

 receding forehead. Granted. She was barren, and there- 

 fore extinct in another generation. And the Circassian ? 

 Oh ! what of him or her ? Why, when free, a nation of 

 masters and slaves, and a father and a brother to a sister or 

 a daughter as low in moral status and as stupid as any serfs 



