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function, we notice that the lower races, such as the 

 Alfurus, resemble the quadrumana in having very 

 small legs, protruding jaws, receding foreheads, thick 

 lips, eyes wide apart and curved upwards ; that as we 

 proceed in turn to the red Indians, the Turanians, 

 and the Semites, this resemblance becomes much 

 less marked, and at last scarcely perceptible ; and 

 that, on reaching the Europeans, it can no longer be 

 traced, except in infants. The legs have become 

 much longer and more massive than the arms, which 

 have diminished in length ; the jaws have retired ; 

 the forehead has advanced ; the lips have become 

 comparatively thin : the eyes have approached each 

 other, and lost their upward curvature. These facts, 

 so familiar to every one that it is almost needless to 

 cite them, show that, in respect to structure, we find 

 a marked progress in the human species, no less than 

 in the animal tribes. Even though the European is 

 born with the structural peculiarities of the savage, 

 he loses them almost immediately after birth; and 

 his possessing them at birth no more proves that 

 his matured faculties are on the same level with 

 those of the savage, than his possessing the charac- 

 teristics of a fish some months before birth proves 

 that his matured faculties are on the same level 

 with those of a fish. Unless, therefore, Mr. Buckle 



