

82 Actual Races in History. 



sequently can neither moderate nor intensify. The 

 wine, once poured in deep enough to assume its 

 full color, will not change that color, whether the 

 infusion be suspended, or be increased tenfold. 

 And the vase, once imbued with the odor thereof, 

 may never again lose it. The diversified races of 

 mankind, imbued with all the qualities of all their 

 antecedent experiences, come back to a final re- 

 union, and contribute a blended character, seasoned 

 and " compounded as with all the arts of the per- 

 fumer," for the personal patrimony which they be- 

 queathe to posterity. 



94. Nor does this mean that the same posterity, 



which the Divine Providence over nature was ever 



looking forward to as the accomplished 



Posterity . . . . , 



still varied neir °* antiquity, will subside into a 



and beauti- sameness as of all characteristics neu- 

 ftal. 



tralizing one another in a dun-colored 



mediocrity. Active characteristics of the human 

 mind and heart and body do not neutralize one 

 another; they go to balance a character, and per- 

 fect one another. Besides, as long as there are 

 poles to this globe, with an equator and two hemi- 

 spheres so different between; as long as there are 

 continents and islands, mountains and plains, there 

 will still be sufficient distinction of characters, 

 physical, intellectual and moral. But that only 

 vindicates for mankind the more perfect unity of a 

 Providential design, as being so conspicuous in a 

 still abiding variety. Unity and variety! As these 



