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spiritual principle ; and to this same spiritual principle man 
owes, not alone the faculty of speech, but that self- conscious 
intelligence of right and wrong, in an ethical point of view, 
on which depends, not alone the genius of Intellectuality, 
whether in highest cultivation or lowest debasement, but his 
sense of responsibility to God — bestowed upon him for his 
eternal welfare here and hereafter — and that too in obedience 
to the fulfilment of a Divine purpose. This is Man's true 
place in Nature, and his only relations to the lower animals. 
The formation of a crystal, a plant, an animal, or a man, is, 
in their eyes as Anthropologists, an exclusively mechanical 
problem — degenerated anatomical characters of crania, in 
the different races of Men ; e.g. dolichocephalic, prognathous, 
brachycephalic, orthognathous, round-headed, oval-headed, 
oblong-headed, micro- cephalic or headless , from the ethno- 
logical antipodes, differ in the same way only as do the skulls 
of lower mammals — as though the tender, the sweet, and the 
lovely, in the physical world, were bequeathed to us as a 
legacy of mere temporary and sensual delight, that had no 
anterior or superior truth, beauty, and purity, in the spiritual 
and eternal Nature of our Heavenly Father, which cause our 
hearts and minds to vibrate — yea, our very souls to tremble 
and yearn for closer intercourse with Him from Whom all 
science springs ! 
6. No crystal, plant, or animal yet known to Natural History, 
however complex or wonderful the mechanism, can enter the 
spiritual domain set forth in the words, I think, I feel, I speak. 
Self-consciousness alone infuses itself into that problem. How- 
ever rough the human casket, the jewel is there. Show the soul, 
the grand distinguishing prerogative of Man, cultivate the 
mind, soften the heart, Christianize Humanity, and the religi- 
osity of the beast-child, the boy-wolf, or, like Ignatius Sancho 
and Gustavus Yasa, born in a slave-ship, wakens them up into 
the refined citizens of London or Paris, and the literary as 
well as philosophical ornaments of modern Europe. 
7. Bishop Hurd said of Lord Bolingbroke, that he was of 
that sect which, to avoid a more odious name, chose to distin- 
guish itself by that of Naturalist. Yes, a Naturalist, two 
hundred years ago, was a persistent denier of all spiritual 
I ruth, an exclusive believer in natural phenomena, an investi- 
gator of Nature and its Laws ; and the word remains true to 
its etymology at this moment, the mode of origin of the dif- 
ferent species of men, historically or pre-historically con- 
sidered, and their development from mammiferous quadrupeds 
are identical in all respects with those of the apes. The human 
ovum tells the same story as that of any other vertebrate 
