4'.) 



V ERTEBRATA. 



NEGRO OF LU.NGO. 



CJ^SAH. 



THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



While thus the immense difference between man and all other animals is manifest, another 

 question of great interest arises, ami that is as to the specific unity of the various races of whicli 

 the great human family is composed. This has been put by an eloquent writer in the following 

 foi m : 



"Does the Bosjcsman, who lives in holes and eaves, and devours ants' eggs, locusts, and snakes, 

 belong to the same species as the men who luxuriated in the hanging gardens of Babylon — or 

 walked the olive-grove of A.cadcm< — or sat enthroned in the imperial homes of the Caesars — or 

 reposed in the marble palaces of the Adriatic — or held sumptuous festivals in the gay salons of 

 Versailles! Can the groveling Wawa, prostrate before his fetish, claim a community of origin 

 with those whose religious sentiments inspired them to pile the prodigious temples of Thebes and 

 Memphis — to carve the friezes of the Parthenon — or to raise the heaven-pointed arches of Cologne? 

 That ignorant Ibo, muttering his all hut inarticulate prayer — is he of the same ultimate ancestry 

 as those who sail,' deathless strains in honor of Olympian Jove or of Pallas Athene — or of th 

 who, in a purer worship, are chanting their glorious hymns or solemn litanies in the churches of 

 ( Ihristendom .' 



•'That Alfouro woman, with her flattened face, transverse nostrils, thick lips, wide mouth, pro- 

 jecting teeth, eyes half-closed by the loose swollen upper eyelids, ears circular, pendulous, and 

 flapping, the hue of her skin of a smoky black, and — by way of ornament ! — the septum of her nose 

 pierced with a round stiek some inehes long — is she of the same original parentage as those whose 

 transcendent and perilous beauty brought unnumbered woes on the people of ancient story, con- 

 vulsed kingdoms, i ntranced poets, and made scholars and sages forget their wisdom? Did thej 

 all Bpring from one common mother? ' 



"Were Belen of Greece, and Cleopatra of Egypt, and Joanna of Aragon, and Rosamond ot 

 England, and Mary of Scotland, and the Eloi'ses, and Lamas, and Ianthes — were all these, and our 



] r Alfouro, daughters of her who was fairer than any of them — Eve? The Quaigua, or Saboo, 



whose language is described as c< misting of certain snapping, hissing, grunting sounds — all more" 

 or less nasal — ia he too of the same descent as those whose eloquent voices ' fulmined over Greece,' 



