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dictated as a guide, and permits blood relations to produce a 
degenerate race. 
A physiologist has said that “We vote millions of our 
treasure to unchain limbs, but make our judges persecute 
men for their opinions and thoughts. In theory and outward 
appearances encourage candour and free aspirations, in 
practice and in the secret workings of our institutions, render 
men hypocrites and slaves.” tfc The frown of power can 
crush the most superb intellect, and prevent the utterance of 
thoughts calculated to invigorate the drooping energies of 
kindred brains. In this land of liberty, the first touch of 
our shore infuses freedom into the enslaved muscle, but 
binds tighter the fetters surrounding thought — bids the 
trembling captive assert the rights of humanity, but prevents 
the free action of the organ, — the cause of his superiority.” 
It is to physical education we must appeal, as the sheet 
anchor, that will save a people from degradation. A know- 
ledge of the physiology of animals and of vegetables, should 
be taught in our schools : it would be far preferable to 
learning the dead languages, or doctrines taught by idealo- 
gians. By education, the cultivators of the earth might be 
taught to understand the methods by wdiich nature builds 
up the vegetable structure, as well as that of the animal ; 
the former receiving their supply of food through the media 
of air and water, and the latter receiving their nourishment 
principally from organised substances. Of this latter, I wish 
now to dilate, as some very false notions are entertained as to the 
design of nature in constituting carnivorous and herbivorous 
animals, and of man, w 7 ho is omnivorous. 
The form of the cranium of most animals bespeak the 
class of food designed by nature, on which the animal should 
exist, together with the beak or mouth, the masticatory 
organs, &c. 
The cat and the rabbit, the hawk and the pigeon, are 
examples of the form of cranium, as well as of the teeth. 
The ass and the lion are very varied as to their heads and 
teeth. A similar comparison may be made as to the form of 
head of many varieties of the carnivorae and herbivorae, as 
well as that of man. The Brahmins of India are a weakly 
and degenerated race of people ; they do not consume animal 
food, their heads being exceedingly narrow 7 ; whereas, the 
North European and Esquimaux feed much upon animal 
food, and has hence a w ide cranium, the masticatory processes 
being also designed accordingly for such consumption of 
food. 
The food taken in by the herbivorous animals is divisible 
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