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offspring of a couple of Chinese parents at Pekin. 

 Even in nations most nearly allied differences of 

 race are distinguishable. Within our own Islands, 

 English, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh are marked by 

 sufficiently obvious differences, both mental and 

 physical. But all these differences spring from 

 another source altogether ; they are traceable to that 

 mysterious process of nature, by which Life is re- 

 newed, through the intercourse of the sexes. But 

 the process by which inventions, arts, and knowledge 

 are transmitted from one generation to another is a 

 purely intellectual one, and has nothing whatever to 

 do with the laws of generation. There may no 

 doubt be natures more or less adapted to receive 

 these ideas, but the ideas themselves must pass from 

 one individual to the other through a purely intel- 

 lectual medium. Some children may learn to read 

 more easily than others, but among the most 

 cultivated nations children are never born able to 

 read. 



The principal means by which this advance must 

 have been originally made, and the acquirements of 

 the parents imparted to the children, must have been 

 through the medium of the gift of Speech, another 

 of the qualities possessed by Man alone. This power 



