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Scriptures, unlefs it be fo far as they can be made 
agreeable to their Philofophy : For the different 
Colours of People have been demonfiratcd to be 
only the neceffary Effe&s, and natural Confe- 
quences, of their refpedive Climes, and Ways of 
Life ; as we may further learn from Experience, 
that they are the mod fuitable for the Prefervation 
of Health, and the Eale and Convenience of Man- 
kind in thefe Clim;s, and Ways of Living: So 
that the black Colour of the Negroes of Africa , 
inftead of being a Curfe denounced on them, on 
.account of their Forefather Ham , as fome have 
idly imagined, is rather a Blefling, rendering their 
Lives, in that intemperate Region, more tolerable, 
and lefs painful : Whereas, on the other hand, 
the white People, who look on themfelves as the 
primitive Race of Men, from a certain Superiority 
of Worth, cither fuppofed or affirmed, feem to 
have the lead Prctenfions to it of any, either from 
Hiftory or Philofophy ; for they feem to have 
degenerated more from the primitive and original 
Complexion of Mankind, in Noah and his Sons, 
than even the Indians and Negroes ; and that to 
the worft Extreme, the mod delicate, tender, and 
fickly. — For there is no Doubt, but that Noah 
and his Sons were of a Complexion fuitable to the 
Climate where they refided, as well as all the reft 
of Mankind 5 which is the Colour of the fouthern 
Tartars of AJia-, or northern Chinefe., at this Day 
perhaps, which is a dark fwarthy, a Medium be- 
twixt Black and White : From which primitive 
Colour the Europeans degenerated as much on 
one 
