P7? GRESS OF MAN. i ^ i 



nations. The former originate, and the latter 

 execute. The seeds of many of the greatest 

 advances in knowledge and intellectual de- 

 velopment, though sown among the Latins, have 

 borne no fruit until transplanted to Teutonic 

 soil. I may instance the Eeformation, the Cir- 

 culation of the Blood, and modern Astronomy. 

 The Albigenses, Servetus, and Galileo preceded 

 Luther, Harvey and Newton. 



But if there is such a wide difference between 

 the Latins and the Germans, how much greater 

 must be the difference between the mind of a 

 European and that of a Negro ! We must not 

 shut our eyes to the plain facts of Nature, and 

 although it is no excuse for treating the lower 

 races with injustice, or for thinking more highly 

 of ourselves than we ought to think, yet we 

 must not remain wilfully blind to the differences 

 between man and man. In our anxiety for 

 justice at the present day we are liable to fall 

 into extremes, and endeavour to remove real 

 injustice and oppression by prematurely 

 attempting to remove restrictions which are 

 really natural and necessary in the present state 

 of Society, in favour of abstract principles. If 

 we had a Eepublic, and cast lots for our Presi- 



