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LECTURE XV. 



The Tradition of Adam.— Geograpliical Distribution of Human Eaces.— 

 Constancy of theii- Characters in the course of time.— Pliability of Eaces 

 —Development of the Skull by Civilisation.— Degeneration of Eaces.— 

 An Example fi-om Ireland.— Modifications of Negroes in America, Yan- 

 kees, Jews.— Time requisite for such modifications.— Intermixture of 

 Eaces.— Differences in Prolificacy in various Mongrels.— Intermixture 

 of White Eaces between themselves.— Mulattoes in South Carolina and 

 Louisiana.— Hombron's Eemarks.— Indians and Whites.— Whites and 

 Malays.— Whites and Polynesians.— Whites and Australians.— Infer- 

 ences regarding the Original Diversity of the Human Eaces, and the 

 Products of Intermixture.— Direct Divine Influence, according to Dr. 

 Sagot. 



Gentlemen — As far as our traditions go, however far back 

 they reach into the remotest antiquity, we observe that wher- 

 ever peoples migrated to, and discovered vmknown countries, 

 they found human beings, who appeared to them not less 

 strange than the animals and plants they met with. There 

 are but few small islands which, from the nature of the soil, 

 their distance from any country, the inhospitality of the cli- 

 mate, presented obstacles to habitation, and thus form an 

 exception to the general rule. The larger islands, as well as 

 all parts of the continents under the hottest and coldest climates, 

 were, by navigators or conquerors, always found inhabited. 

 Even rehgious legends, which have for their object the origin 

 of mankind and the history of a privileged race, even these 

 leo-ends indicate that at the creation of the first pair the world 

 was already peopled, an indication given even in the Bible. 

 After the murder of Abel, Cain was the only child of Adam ; 

 Seth and the other sons and daughters mentioned in the 

 Bible not being yet born. Notwithstanding this, Cain takes 

 his wife with him in his flight and immediately lays the foun- 

 dation of a new city, after having received the mark on his 



