THE HUMAN SPECIES. 371 



Thus he is constructed with physical powers equal to 

 his intellectual organization, fitted to sustain pro- 

 tracted thought ; continuous attention alike excited by 

 an activity of disposition stimulating his brain, which 

 is larger and more fully developed in the anterior por- 

 tion than in any other form of Man. In the mere ani- 

 mal senses of sight, hearing, feeling, smell, and tast- 

 ing, the social position of civilized nations may render 

 them in part less quick, because they are less called 

 into activity ; but the Kaufir mountaineer of Hindu- 

 Koosh, and the Arab wanderer, are no doubt equal, if 

 not superior to the acutest perception of Negro, Ame- 

 rican, or any other wild race in the world. Again, 

 the Caucasian form of Man combines, above the rest, 

 strength of limb, with activity of motion, enabling it 

 to endure the greatest vicissitudes of temperature in 

 all climates; to emigrate, colonise, and multiply in 

 them, with the sole exception of the positive extremes. 

 His longevity is more generally protracted, even in 

 the midst of the enervating habits of high civiliza- 

 tion ; his solid fibre gives a reasoned self-possession, 

 and daring in vicissitudes, arising from the passions, 

 from accident or from the elements ; and his reflective 

 powers find expedients to brave danger, with self-pos- 

 session and impunity. 



The moral and intellectual character we find to be 

 in unison with his structure : the reasoning powers 

 outstripping the mere process of comparing sensations, 

 and showing, in volition, more elevated thought, more 

 reasoning, justice, and humanity : he alone of the races 



