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geographical distribution of plants and animals. 
He conscientiously believed that the anthropology of the Scrip- 
tures otight not to, and does not, conflict with the notion of a 
plural origin of the race or races, which in nowise disclaims the 
unity of mankind as identical in species, and as brothers in moral 
and in physical nature, responsibility and destiny, power, hope, 
and free-will. * * * * 
He did believe that he spoke the truth; and that truth, which 
is never irreconcilable with God’s will and purpose, admits 0 
being spoken and onght not to be hid. In this spirit, if this was 
his spirit, even though he erred, he was surely no conspirator. 
I shall dismiss this part of my subject when I shall have pre- 
sented to you a passage from that celebrated writer, the Chevalier 
Bunsen, showing his views upon a subject connected with the 
topic under review. ; 
In his Egypt's Place in the World’s History, the Chevalier 
Bunsen asks whether the study of Egyptian History would lead 
us to.a conclusion that there was one universal deluge, or several 
partial and local floods; and whether the most ancient traditions, 
those of Egypt especially, exhibit any indications of violent iter- 
ruptions in the early stages of human advancement ; and lastly, 
what light is thrown by “our researches” on the great question 
of the unity of the human race and its primordial epochs. 
“No historian,” says he, “in these days, who deals honestly 
and conscientiously with Egyptian chronology, can evade these 
questions, e have no hesitation in asserting at once, a 
without entering into any further investigation, that there exist 
Kgyptian monuments, the date of which can be accurately fixet 
of a higher antiquity than those of any other nation known ™ 
history, viz., above 50 ; act must be explained: 
to deny it would be a proof of little skill and still Jess candor 00 
the part of any critic who has once undertaken to make th 
investigation.” 
: ahaa - — this memoir to a conclusion. : 
leuro-pneumonia of the left lung, which brought his life inte 
prone: 
struggle, left him to come forth again upon the stage of actio? 
a man. in broke health from a ou ae ses of 
