720 SUPERIORITY OF EUROPEANS. 



more courageous, than those of Brazil, Paraguay, 

 Mexico, and Peru, who like the Eboes, Gaboons, 

 Mandingoes, and other blacks of tropical Africa, 

 New Holland, and New Guinea, have always been 

 a feeble, indolent, and servile race. As we ad- 

 vance from the middle latitudes of America to 

 Cape Horn southward, or to the Arctic Ocean 

 northward, man diminishes in stature until the 

 average does not exceed four and a half or five 

 feet.* 



There is nothing in the history of our race more 

 certain, than that in all the attributes of a vigor- 

 ous and beautiful organization, man has attained 

 to the highest perfection in the temperate zone. 

 How striking is the contrast between the tall Eu- 

 ropean, with his high and expanded forehead, 

 large, bright, and intelligent eyes, oval face, and 

 well marked features, compared with the low 

 thick stature of the northern Asiatic, or the native 

 of polar America, with his square head, flat face, 



* The horse, ox, deer, sheep, goat, dog, and some other do- 

 mestic animals, are also larger, better formed, and more vigorous, 

 in the middle latitudes, than in either the tropical or polar regions. 

 And although the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, giraffe, 

 lion, tiger, and some other mammalia, attain to very great size 

 within the tropics, they have less strength and activity than ani- 

 mals in the middle latitudes of the same size. 



And if reptiles are larger in hot than in cold climates, it is be- 

 cause their respiration is imperfect, and arrested for six or eight 

 months in the higher latitudes, during which they cease to grow ; 

 whereas within the tropics, they continue to grow throughout the 

 year. 



