312 John Bachman. 



lished opinions, he assumes, without giving any sat- 

 isfactory reasons, that there might originally have 

 heen eight created nations, yet he is very cautious in 

 not calling them species and, in great doubt and 

 uncertainty, adds : " I still hesitate to assign to 

 each (race) an independent origin." We are en- 

 couraged to hope, therefore, that he who has always 

 appeared to us as a searcher after truth, and who is 

 courteous in his language, and scientific in his pur- 

 suits, is not so hopelessly committed to an erroneous 

 theory, as not to be induced to review the whole 

 subject again. In the lower departments of Zoology, 

 he ranks at the head of the naturalists of our 

 country, and we are not without a hope, that after 

 having carefully studied those higher forms of 

 animal life, which prepare us to form an unbiassed 

 judgment in regard to man and his varieties, he may 

 return to his original views. 



If we look for those characteristics that are essen- 

 tial to a species, they are found in every tribe of men 

 in the whole earth. If we compare man with every 

 variety in the species of domesticated animals, his 

 variations present the same phenomena ; if we ascend 

 higher and examine his instincts, the power of his 

 mind, and his longings after immortality, we can- 

 not but perceive that these gleams of intelligence 

 and of hope exist, however partially developed, even 

 among the most degraded and barbarous nations. 



An Examination of Professor Agassiz Natural Provin- 

 ces of the Animal World in their Relation to the 

 Different Types of Man, with a Tableau Accom- 

 panying the Sketch. 



In the work called " Types of Mankind," by Nott 

 & Gliddon, the public is presented with a paper by 



