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for use, enjoyment, and for setting forth of the power, 

 goodness, and mercy of God. 



Section III. — Dr Livingstones labours, explorations, and dis- 

 coveries considered as to their extent and results in their 

 Ethnological Aspect. 



"All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord : 

 and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the 

 kingdom is the Lord's : and he is the governor among the nations." — 

 Psalm xxii. 27, 28. 



The unity of the Human Race further proved by Dr Living- 

 stones researches in South Africa. 



"We all are one man's sons." — Gen. xlii. 11. 



The physical history of our race is both an interesting and 

 profitable study. In reference to the great controversies about 

 the common origin of mankind we cannot do better than im- 

 plicitly believe the Mosaic account of it, deriving us all from 

 Adam and Eve. Differences in colour, speech, national cha- 

 racteristics, religious belief, moral, social and intellectual con- 

 dition, may stagger some about the unity of the race; but be 

 it remembered that these diversities are mostly referable to 

 external circumstances. There remains one fact propounded 



in Scripture, and observable in human expe- 

 An inward or . .... J .. , . . 



spiritual unity rience, which mcontrovertibly proves this unity. 



of mankind de- Outward differences undoubtedly exist, for which 

 climate, mode of life, geographical situation, social 

 status, and national bias amply account ; but notwithstanding 

 there is an inward unity of thought, passion, prejudice, sym- 

 pathy and desire. The same pleasures, anxieties, crimes, vir- 

 tues, vices, noble or mean actions and influences, affect alike in 

 many instances the soul of the most cultivated philosopher and 

 of the most uncivilized savage. Different species would not 



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