APPENDIX. 
FIRST DIVISION. . VERTEBRAL ANIMALS. 
CLASS I. MAMMALTA. 
THE reader will remember that we commenced this work with a consider- 
ation of Order II. (Quadrumana), of Class I. This was done for special 
reasons, of a personal character, which need not be mentioned here. Our 
concluding pages, therefore, will be devoted to a brief investigation of the 
first order of Mammalians, then omitted, —i. e., Man, and his varieties. 
ORDER Il. BIMANA (Two-handed). 
There is a great diversity of opinion among naturalists in regard to the 
origin and natural history of Man. According to the older authors, he 
constitutes but one genus, and one single species, and has sprung from a sin- 
gle pair; the innumerable varieties, now existing, it is supposed, are the 
results of the climates through which the race has been distributed. The most 
eminent modern naturalists, on the contrary, affirm that man could not have 
descended from a single pair, but must have been created by the Almighty 
in nations, and in those regions of the earth where the several races find 
their home. According to some of these authors, the race comprises two 
hundred genera. We cannot here enter into this controversy, and will only 
remark, that however, and in whatever manner, created, the human race is 
still one in the common possession of superior and homogeneous attributes, 
among which is the power to aspire to the Ideal, and to recognize Religion 
as a supreme fact in human life. 
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