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upon the marked differences, others rest upon those 

 features which are common to the whole race, and 

 the dispute in the present state of our information 

 is not easily settled. Without venturing to come to 

 any decision upon it, we may safely assume that in 

 either case the practical result at the present stage 

 is the same ; whether the various races who people 

 the globe, the Europeans, the Mongol tribes, the 

 Red Indians of North America, or the Negroes of 

 Africa, sprung all originally from the same parents, 

 and their differences arise from the operation of 

 climate, modes of life and other causes through a 

 succession of ages, or whether they were originally 

 separate families, in either case the results at the 

 present period are identical. These different races 

 of men are as distinct from each other as different 

 varieties of the same species among the lower 

 animals. There is as much difference between an 

 Englishman and a Negro, both physically and 

 morally, as between a greyhound and a bulldog. 

 Their physical frames, their moral qualities, and 

 their intellectual powers differ widely, and the 

 difference is not lessened whichever of the two 

 theories is adopted. Nothing would seem to be 

 more clearly demonstrated by the evidence of facts, 



