OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



either a perfect ancon, or have no trace of it ; and if two aro lambed at 

 the same time, and one be of one variety and the other of the other, each 

 is found to be perfect in its way, without any amalgamation. 



In like manner, in all probability, from some primary accident resulted 

 the peculiar shape of the head and face in most nations as well as in most 

 families ; and hence too those enormous prominences on the hinder parts 

 of one or two of the nations at the back of the Cape of Good Hope, of 

 which an instance was not long since exhibited in this country with some 

 degree of outrage on moral feeling. 



Man, then, is not the only animal in which such variations of form and 

 feature occur ; nor the animal in which they occur either most frequently 

 or in the most extraordinary and extravagant manner. 



M. Blumenbach, who has pursued this interesting subject with a liveli- 

 ness the most entertaining, and a chain of argument the most convincing, 

 has, selected the swine genus from among many other quadrupeds that 

 would have answered as well, especially the dog and the sheep, in order to 

 institute a comparison of this very kind ; and he has completely succeeded 

 in showing that the swine, even in countries where we have historical and 

 undeniable proofs, as especially in America, of its being derived from one 

 common and imported stock, exhibits, in its different varieties, distinctions 

 not only as numerous and astonishing, but, so far as relates to the exterior 

 frame, of the very same kind as are to be met with in the different varieties 

 of the human species. 



In regard to size the Cuba swine, well-known, as he observes,. to have 

 been imported into that island from Europe, are at the present day double 

 the height and magnitude of the stock from which they were bred. Whence 

 we may well laugh at every argument in favour of more than one human 

 stock or species drawn from the difference of stature in different nations 

 of man. In regard to colour they display at least as great a diversity. In 

 Piedmont the swine are black ; in Bavaria reddish-brown ; in Normandy 

 white. Human hair, observes M. Blumenbach, is somewhat different 

 from swine's bristles ; yet in the present point of view they may be com- 

 pared with each other. Fair hair is soft, and of a silky texture ; black hair 

 is coarser, and often woolly. In like manner, among the white swine in 

 Normandy, the bristles on the body are longer and softer than among other 

 swine ; and even those on the back, which are usually stouter than the rest, 

 are flaccid and cannot be employed by the brush-makers. 



The whole difference between the cranium of a Negro and that of an 

 European is in no respect greater than that which exists between the 

 ci-anium of the wild boar and that of the domestic swine. Those who are 

 in possession of Daubenton's drawings of the two, must be sensible of this 

 the first moment they compare them together. The peculiarity among 

 the Hindus of having the bone of the leg remarkably long, meets a precise 

 parallel in the swine of Normandy, which stands so high on their hind 

 quarters, that the back forms an inclined plane to the head ; and as the 

 head itself partakes of the same direction, the snout is but little removed 

 from the ground. 



In some countries, indeed, the swine have degenerated into races that 

 in singularity far exceed the most extravagant variations that have been 

 found among the human species. What can differ more widely than a 

 cloven foot and a solid hoof? yet swine are found with both : the variety 

 with a solid hoof was known to the ancients, and still exists in Hungary 

 and Sweden ; and even the common sort that were carried bv the Spaniards 



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