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Anatomically confidered, they perfedtly agree, in all the material causes 



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great parts of their frame, and even in the particulars of their ilruc- 

 ture, and confequently they cannot conftitute different fpecies. 

 For confidering that if the mofl remote tribes of mankind cohabit 

 together, they always procreate children fmiilar to their parents and 

 capable of procreating others, the difference cannot be fo mate- 

 rial ; efpecially if we remark, that by continually repeated marriages 

 of a Mulatto (who Is the offspring of a btack and a white perfon) 

 with white perfons, the progeny after each marriage, becomes 



fairer and fa 



fo that at lafl not the leafl diffe 



ohfer 



able 



or that if the Mulatt 



a black perfon, the 



off- 



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fpring Is blacker, and after a few inter- marriages th'e race is reduced 

 to abfolute negroes : after thefe remarks, I fay it mufl become more 



and more evident to minds free from prejud 



or rancour 



gainfl 



religion, t&at all mankind^ though cuer fo much varied ^ are, how ever, 

 hut of one fpecies. If therefore this clafs of antagonifls, fhould 

 deny the fcripture that veneration, in which it is held by Chriflians, 

 they cannot, however, refufe it with any colour of juflice, the au- 

 thority of an old hiilorical account ; and as fuch we find it corro- 

 borates flron gly the above rcfult of philofophical enquiry, by telling 

 iis, that all mankind are defended from one couple. 



If all mankind be of one fpecies, and fprung from the fame original 

 ftem, how then does it happen that the negroe of Senegal is fo 



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