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sent varieties so strongly marked, as to have almost 

 justified some naturalists in regarding them as 

 different species ; and he has applied to them the 

 term c sub-species,' indicating that although the 

 distinctions are not so broad and absolute as to 

 justify their being ranked as distinct species, yet 

 that they are too widely apart to be classed merely 

 as varieties, and he has therefore invented a sort of 

 middle term of c sub-species ' by which to characterise 

 them. 



Now this is totally irreconcilable not only with 

 Mr. Buckle's premises, but with all his subsequent 

 deductions, which proceed to explain by some very 

 ingenious but far-fetched hypotheses the causes of 

 these differences which, according to him, were not 

 innate, but have been subsequently grafted upon 

 Man's original nature. Mr. Buckle lays down that 

 all the diversities found in Mankind spring from 

 differences in < Climate, Food, and Soil, and in the 

 impressions made upon the mind by the different 

 Aspects of Nature.' With regard to the three first, 

 there can be no doubt that they have a considerable 

 influence upon the character and condition of 

 nations ; but Mr. Buckle is inclined, as most in- 

 ventors of systems are, to bring everything within 



