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to present to you a few of the contradictory 

 statements which you have made on this sub- 

 ject, before you pronounce me either incor- 

 rigibly stupid, or wilfully blind. Pity me, Sir, 

 I am only in the situation in which you repre- 

 sent Ajax " I require nothing but day-light 

 " and fair play." p. 107. 



" On reviewing the facts," you say, < f which 

 " are detailed in the foregoing pages, we see, 

 " that, although the various races of men differ 

 " from each other in stature, as well as in other 

 " points, these differences are confined within 

 <c narrower limits in man than in the species of 

 f< domestic animals, and consequently that they 

 " do not prove diversity of species." * This 

 reasoning does not appear very luminous ; but 

 we are enabled to collect from it, at least, 

 your opinion. Now, I would beg you to con- 

 trast with this sentence the following, which 

 occurs at p. 555 : " I cannot yet assume it as 

 *' a point fully proved, that all the varieties of 

 " mankind have proceeded from one and the 

 Cf same breed." Indeed, Sir, then I should sup- 

 pose we ought to withhold our assent to attri- 

 buting them to one and the same species. If it 

 could be shown, that the Mongolian, Ethio- 

 pian, American, and Malay varieties have 

 really proceeded from different stocks ; then, it 

 would prove them to be in fact, different spe- 

 cies i and in as much as you are doubtful on 



* P. 44$, and p. 305. 



