DEGENERATION. 
and the Negro, produce oe with the aoe can; nor 
ean ay ing, as this ingenious writer maintains, be a 
ftronger pro oof that they eae to the fame family than th 
facility with which they un iG the common ftock. he 
blood is different, but the ae is the fame, The fkin, the 
hair, the features, and the itature, ave varicd, without any 
change in the interna! — ur ype is fsuabee and 
common; and if, b reat ee ces ma s forced 
to abandon thofe eae which he had invade t, er tc re- 
turn to his native country, he would, in the progrefs of 
time, refume ce original features, his primitive ftature, and 
his natural colour. But sean age would . produced much 
fooner by the mixture of rac A white male wit lack 
female, or a black male vith a white female, equally pro- 
or a mixture of 
ite. tha 
produces a rae ey tto lefe brown than the former ; 
if the fecond mulatto unites with a white, the third will only 
thai e of baen, which will entirely vanifh in 
flow 
reat as vhs altera 
rae is, it is only fuper The colour of the {kin, hate, 
and eyes, varies by a caters: of climate alone. The 
other changes, fuch as thofe of ftature, figure, features, 
and a of the hair, feem to ae the joint alate 
- of climate and other caufes. dire&t and general 
ae ciaeiig eae is the aaa of the food. Tt i is 
chiefly by aliment that man receives the influence of the foil 
which he inhabits ; whilft that of the air and climate acts 
more fuperficially. = the inate changes the colour 
of the fin, food a&s upon the internal form by its sharma 
which are always sere to thofe of the earth by which it 
produced. Inthe fame country we perceive ftriking differ. 
ences between thofe who occupy the heights and thofe who 
inhabit the ae a The Pls aaa of the mountains 
er made, more lively, a 
than thofe of | Ae alley. Hence, in counts remot 
the original climate, where the herbs, fruits, grains, and 
the fleth of animals, differ both in quality and fubftance, the 
men mia feed upon thefe articles mutt, in a courfe of hip 
o ftill greater changes. But it sep ae ages, in 
ek ufe of the fame food, to ge the a the 
fize of the body, and the fabftance of ie hair, and t 
duce thofe internal alterations, which, when Seated by 
generation, become general and permanent charaCteriftics 
which diftinguifh the Sanh races a nations that com- 
pofe the ngerepte of the human fpecies. 
With r to brut barack ce effects are Sas 
and more “adden! gecomplined becaufe the 
nearly allied to the earth than man; becaufe ee food, 
more uniformly the a and fubjest to no preparation, 
has qualities more det of more powerful in- 
c 
3 
But when 
be any suey on - eo 
goes changes fo great, 
that, in order to recognize them, recour fe mult be 
ination, 
add that of the empire of man over thofe which he has re- 
ou. XI. 
duced to flavery, we fhall be puree at the degree : 
which tyranny can degrade and disfigure nature; we ff 
perceive the marks of ieee and . prints of her Aaa 
and we fhall find, that thefe wounds are deeper and more ine 
curable in pers to their a antiquity $ ; and that, in the 
of domeflic animals, it is perhaps impoffible 
and thofe attributes of na~ 
hem 
to rllor their primitive form, 
ture of which we have deprived t 
ffon examines, in detail, the operation and effec& 
of the caufes avon ipccnicd: and, Oh = doing, exhibits a 
nimal, whi 
gin ouflon, ‘ays this a 
tlrong de armed wi n ick 
with coarfe hair, and dreading athe the inclemen 
fy nor the voracity of the wolf. How different ton our 
fheep, who fubfift with difficuliy in flocks, — are unable 
to eis themfelves by their Pa who c 
the c our winters without fhelte 
erith, if man withdrew his protetion ! "Timiaiy : —— 
refignation, and ftupidity, are the only melan 
of their degraded nature. 
ner. 
fineft wool. r climate the {pecies of the goat is not fo 
much degene ey as that of the fheep. It a 
ftill_ more ae ated in the 
India. The fpecies of the ox is more influenced by nourith- 
ment than that of any other domeftic animal. The influence 
of food is in general greater, and produces more fenfible 
nivorous animals, on the co 
e 
a acy lefs 
caufe than 
the influence of clim 
other carnivorous animal, In his degradations, he feem 
follow exadtly the differences of climate. In the warmett 
climates he is naked, covered with a coarfe thick hair in the 
dently of the external varieties produced by the influence o 
climate, the dog is fubje& to other sae which proceed 
from his fituation, his captivity, or the e of the inter- 
$ with man. 
likewife the moft ufeful for eialine a 
prefervation of good order.. His race cue therefore, to 
more multiplied than thofe of other dogs, who minifter 
only to our aap and whofe number is fo great that, 
in every town and village, the oe a ed by them 
ld nourifh many families. The c ftate has greatly 
contributed to vary the colour = ea which, in genes 
» was originally brown or bla e dog, the ox, the 
