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the white man of Western Europe and the Bushman 

 of Southern Africa, than there is between many so- 

 called species ; but the bias of preconceptions has left 

 its mark on zoology as on other fields of thought, and 

 we are constrained to follow the nomenclature in vogue 

 more for the sake of being understood than from 

 beUef in its scientific accuracy. In many instances the 

 so-called specific distinctions in zoology are founded 

 on colour, covering, and other features often less 

 marked than the corresponding characteristics in man; 

 and yet men are arranged in varieties merely, while 

 these lower animals are separated into species. Strip 

 these "species" of their colours and covering, and the 

 skeleton of the one could not be distinguished from 

 that of the other; but place the skeleton of the African 

 Negro beside that of the European White, and a child 

 might detect the difference. A science so partial in 

 its methods need scarcely be appealed to for anything 

 decisive respecting the natural-history relations of 

 man, and the anthropologist must mainly abide by 

 his own deductions. 



Seeing, then, that the great continents of the globe 

 contain numerous nationalities which are admittedly 

 the results of locaUty or physical surroundings, and 

 that these nationalities gradually shade into each 

 other on their respective confines, it may be further 

 admitted that the so-called varieties which embrace 



