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one hand, as the Africans did on the other 5 the 
Afiatics (unlefs, perhaps, where mixed with the 
whiter Europeans) with moft of the Americans y 
retaining the primitive and original Complexion. — 
The grand Obftacle to the Belief of this Relation 
between white and black People is, that, on com- 
paring them together, their Colours feem to be fo 
opposite and contrary, that it feems impoflible 
that one fhould ever have been defeended from the 
other. But, befides the Falfity of this fuppofed 
direct Contrariety of their Colours, they being only 
different, altho J extreme, Degrees of the fame Sort 
of Colour, as we have above proved ; befides this, 
I fay, that is not a right State of the Qucftion , 
we do not affirm, that either Blacks or Whites 
were originally defeended from one another, but 
that both were defeended from People of an inter- 
mediate tawny Colour ; whofe Poftcrity became 
more and more tawny, /. e. black, in the fouthern 
Regions, and lefs fo, or white, in the northern 
Climes: Whilft thofe who remained in the mid- 
die Regions, where the firft Men refided, conti- 
nued of their primitive tawny Complexions ; which 
we fee confirmed by Matter of Fad, in all the dif- 
ferent People in the World.- — Agreeable to this, 
we fee that the Heat of the Sun will tan, as the 
Saying is, the fairefl Skin, of a dark fwarthy, 
even at this Day ; in which there is fome Degree 
of Blacknefs ; or, at leaft, this may well be laid to 
be a Tendency to their primitive fwarthy Com- 
plexions; Rub ef cere cum ntgredine quadam incepit. 
