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REMARKS 



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T H E 



CAUSES 

 OF VARI- 

 ETIES. 



The fplrit of love, and amorous delight. 

 Grace was in all her ileps ; heav'n in her eye 

 In every geilure dignity and love. 



Milton. 



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I cannot think that a man looking up to this inimitable mailer- 

 piece, could be tempted to compare it with an ugly, loathfome 



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ouran-outang ! If he Hill in good earn^il be of this opinion, the 

 whole heavenly' liflierhood of Eve's fair daughters ought for ever to 

 exclude him from their bright circles : and in cafe he then perfifls 

 obHinate, may none but ouran-outangs vouchfafe and admit his 



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embraces. 



The next clafs of writers reprefent the inhabitants of Greenland, 



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and thofe of Senegambia, as beings fpeciiically different from thofe 

 of Europe or Tcherkaffia : * and, indeed, if we are at 



once to 



make a fudden tranlitio 



from the con tempi 



of th 



fairefl: 



beauty of Europe to that of a deformed negro ; the difference is fo 



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and the contrail fo ilrong, that we might be tempted 



them of a diilind fpecies : but if we examine the infenfible crrada- 



tlons, in the form, habit, fize, colour, and 



fome external differ- 



ences, we ihall find that they are by 



no means fo v/idely remote 



from each other in the fcale of beings, as to form feparate fpecies. 



Ana- 



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*yokalre, PHIofophlc; de rhiilohc & -cjuc/lions fur I'JEncyclopcdie, torn Iv, ^ 



torn xn. 



