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color to another, assume among other things a 

 white hair on a black skin. Among poultry, the 

 domestic fowl of French breed has a white skin; 

 that of Cochin China approaches yellow; and there 

 are black fowls with a black skin, while the silk hen 

 of Japan has a dark skin under white feathers. 

 Now, with human beings the accommodations have 

 been just as striking and as numerous. There are 

 white races which are black; "all black men," it is 

 said, " are not negroes. " That is to say, the Hindoo 

 is of Aryan race; the Bisharee and the Moor are of 

 Semitic blood, all therefore of a white stock; yet 

 they have assumed the same hue as the true negro, 

 and even a darker hue. In fact, on any white per- 

 son's skin, the spots called freckles are said to pre- 

 sent the same characteristics as the negro skin. 



63. These matters, and many others which show 

 race merging imperceptibly into race, and therefore 

 without any specific chasm between ; 

 which take place right under our eyes, Physical and 



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and therefore are of immediate scien- conclusions. 

 tific evidence, lead us to the following 

 conclusion. It is clear, by the genuine law of 

 inference, or induction, that, in similar conditions 

 holding in past times, similar changes must have 

 been taking place as take place now; and some 

 varieties thus springing up must have been perpet- 

 uated in races. Here the argument of analogy 

 coming in emphasizes our conclusion with regard to 

 man, by showing that the most divergent human 



