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tures should not be taken in too literal a way. The curse was not of the 
character which Mr. Titcomb attributes to it at all And it ‘do- no ; foUo 
that every individual of the race of Canaan should be a slave InM « 
was not possible, for it is said they were, in the first instance to -be servants 
fee"tos! r ’ Nlw!wTh“s’f“t'! tL there was a race 
Sof^I^titefem Cot Hamilton Smith’s history ^the Huruan 
fessor of Philosophy in the University of Marburg in on An 
polovy. We have also the fact stated there contrasting the tlnclmess of t 
Llfof the Negro and the thin skull of the Hindoo ; and it » 
that the Negro’s skin ought not always to be considered so black as Mr 
Titcomb seems to think and we generally take it to be. W ™ f J 
the most modem opinion about the Negro and his 
from Mr. Anthony TroUope, who travelled in America a few years ago, and 
whose opinion is in perfect accordance with that of all ethnologists, 
says 
“ Give them their liberty, starting them well in the ^ 
you please, and at the end of six ^ be done f()r them . they 
hands for the means of support. Everyth as do 
expect food, clothes, and instruction as to every simple acr 
children.” 
I have mentioned these facts because, before we go into the question of ^the 
origin of the Negro, we should have an idea of his characteristics apart ft m 
hhTblaek skin, woolly hair, prognathous formation of the — 
hard skull All moral characteristics are much more important than mere y 
nhvsical ones? and when Mr. M'Arthur says that the Negro ongmaUy was 
not intellectually inferior to other races, I should reply Very e y no , 
buVif we take his father as being Ham, the Son of Noah, unq— b^ 
whatever may have been his intellectual equality with his brethren, there ca 
henodoubtlhat he was morally debased and inferior It is an importen 
nuestion that is brought before us when we take up such a solemn subject as 
question that sorog ^ ^ ^ ^ away thoroughly all mis- 
undemtanding respecting it. In the first place, we must recofert that to 
curse in Scripture, whatever its nature, is not a curse pronounced by 
father, pronounced that such a character was o y 
