CHAP. VII.] WHITE AND NEGRO RACES. 105 



to Ohio, emancipation alone being wanting to demonstrate this 

 fact to the world. 



This adventure confirmed me in the opinion I had previously 

 formed, that if the colored men had fair play, and were carefully 

 educated, they might soon be safely intrusted with equality of 

 civil and political rights. Whatever may be their present infe 

 riority as a race, some of them have already shown superior 

 abilities to a great many of the dominant whites. Whether, in 

 the course of many generations, after the intense prejudices in 

 dulged against them have abated, they would come up to the 

 intellectual standard of Europeans, is a question which time 

 alone can decide. It has been affirmed by some anatomists that 

 the brain of an adult negro resembles that of a white child ; and 

 Tiedemann, judging by the capacity of the cranium, found the 

 brains of some of our uncivilized British ancestors not more de 

 veloped than the average sized negro s brain. He says, &quot; there 

 is undoubtedly a very close connection between the absolute size 

 of the brain, and the intellectual powers and functions of the 

 mind.&quot; After a long series of observations and measurements, 

 he refutes the idea that the brain of a negro has more resem 

 blance to that of the orang-outang than the European brain.* 1 



Mr. Owen, having some years ago made a post-mortem exam 

 ination at St. Bartholomew s Hospital of the brain of an adult 

 Irish laborer, found that it did not weigh more than the average 

 brain of a youth from the educated classes of the age of fourteen ; 

 and he tells me, in a letter on this subject, that he is not aware 

 &quot; of any modification of form or size in the negro s brain that 

 would support an inference that the Ethiopian race would not 

 profit by the same influences favoring mental and moral im 

 provement, which have tended to elevate the primitively barbar 

 ous white races of men.&quot; 



The separation of the colored children in the Boston schools, 

 before alluded to, arose, as I afterward learned, not from an in 

 dulgence in anti-negro feelings, but because they find they can 

 in this way bring on both races faster. Up to the age of four 

 teen the black children advance as fast as the whites ; but after 

 * Phil. Trans. London, 1836, p. 497. 



