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REMARKS 



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T H B 



SECTION 



III 



A 



On the Causes of the Difference in 



the 



Races of 



Men in the South Seas, their Origin and Migrations, 



TnJc F'enus n^arla produclt forte Jiguras : 

 Majoru77iquc rcfcrt n)oltiis^ ^occfq^^e co7nafiiue^ 



Lucretius, 



-> 



CAUSES 



OF VARI- 



E T I KS . 



H 



\ 



AVING ftated the differences of colour, lize, habit, form 

 of body, and turn of mind, as obferved in the various 



r 

 W 



nations of the South Sea, it remains to affign the moil probable 



r 



and the moft reafonable caufes of thefe remarkable differences of 

 the tv/o races. This would be an eafy tafk, by having recourfe io 

 holy writ only, and from thence laying it down as a fundamental 



pofition, that all mankind are defcended from one 



pi 



for 



muffc then follow that all are of 



fp 



and that all varieties 



are only accidental. But in this age of refinement and infidelity, 



fome modern writers 



fe every poffible means to 



date the 



authority of revealed religion, and though they employ the fcrip 



ture, when they endeavour to fupp 



thei 



r own 



philofophi 



opinions, they never admit arguments taken from thence in others 



and if we look around 



find fo 



general a tendency in all ranks of 

 men towards faying and writing new and uncommon things, that 



I 



the. 



