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did indeed bring in a tribe of systems; and he set 

 the example of " wrapping theories up in facts," 

 which is not, as Wigand observes, quite the same 

 thing as proving them. But we beg to leave it on 

 record, that some of the systems he helped to 

 bring in are sufficiently respectable compared with 

 their pioneer. His attempt was only a pioneer of 

 theirs, not an ancestor; connected with them by 

 analogy, not by descent. This we can say, if you 

 like as a compliment, but also in truth; in every 

 case, however, by way of conclusion and taking 

 leave of this unutterable school, for the present. I 

 hope it is clearly enough established that all the 

 races of man are specifically identical in moral and 

 intellectual characters, in physiological and ana- 

 tomical qualities. 



76. Only one thing remains, and that is to show 

 the process whereby the races could 

 have come to be differentiated so much, f. lffer ?" tia " 



> turn of Races. 



if they ever had one and the same ori- 

 gin; and differentiated too within the space proba- 

 bly of five thousand years. Are any reasons as- 

 signable for considering that they originated in 

 mere modifications of the same stock; so that the 

 modifications, being perpetuated by generation and 

 becoming fixed by inheritance, have given us all 

 the present races as a remote posterity of the same 

 primitive pair? The variations in question, which 

 distinguish the races, are such as stature, figure, 

 color, shape of the cranium and of the face, weight 



