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YERTEBRATA. 
HEGRO OF UOXGO. CiESAE. 
THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN EACE. 
While tlius the immense difference between man and all other animals is manifest, another 
question of great interest arises, and that is as to the specific unity of the vat'ious races of which 
the great human family is composed. This has been put by an eloquent writer in the following 
form ; 
"Does the Bosjesman, who lives in holes and caves, and devours ants' eggs, locusts, and snakes, 
belong to the same species as the men who luxuriated in the hanging gardens of Babylon — or 
walked the olive-grove of Academe — or sat enthroned in the imperial homes of the Caesars — or 
reposed in the marble palaces of the Adriatic — or held sumptuous festivals in the gay salons of 
Versailles? Can the groveling Wawa, prostrate before his fetish, claim a community of origin 
with those whose religious sentiments inspired them to pile the prodigious temples of Thebes and 
Memphis — to carve the friezes of the Parthenon — or to raise the heaven-pointed arches of Cologne ? 
That ignorant Ibo, muttering his all but inarticulate prayer — is he of the same ultimate ancestry 
as those who sang deathless strains in honor of Olympian Jove or of Pallas Athene — or of those 
who, in a purer worship, are chanting their glorious hymns or solemn litanies in the churches of 
Christendom ? 
"That Alfouro woman, with her flattened face, transverse nostrils, thick lips, wide mouth, pro- 
jecting teeth, eyes half-closed by the loose swollen upper eyelids, ears circular, pendulous, and 
flapping, the hue of her skin of a smoky black, and — by way of ornament ! — the septum of her nose 
pierced with a round stick some inches long — is she of the same original parentage as those Avhose 
transcendent and perilous beauty brought unnumbered woes on the people of ancient story, con- 
vulsed kingdoms, entranced poets, and made scholars and sages forget their wisdom ? Did they 
all spring from one common mother ? 
" Were Helen of Greece, and Cleopatra of Eg}qDt, and Joanna of Aragon, and Eosamond of 
England, and Mary of Scotland, and the Eloises, and Lauras, and lanthes — were all these, and our 
poor Alfouro, daughters of her who was fairer than any of them — Eve ? The Quaigua, or Saboo, 
whose language is described as consisting of certain snapping, hissing, grunting sounds — all more 
or less nasal — is he too of the same descent as those whose eloquent voices ' fuhnined over Greece,' 
