CHAP. VIII.] 
THE NEGRO. 
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apportioning special qualities to each, the varieties of 
the human race exhibit certain characters and quali¬ 
fications which adapt them for specific localities. The 
natural character of those races will not alter with a 
change of locality, but the instincts of each race will 
be developed in any country where they may be located. 
Thus, the English are as English in Australia, India, 
and America, as they are in England, and in every lo¬ 
cality they exhibit the industry and energy of their 
native land ; even so the African will remain negro in 
all his natural instincts, although transplanted to other 
soils; and those natural instincts being a love of idle¬ 
ness and savagedom, he will assuredly relapse into an 
idle and savage state, unless specially governed and 
forced to industry. 
The history of the negro has proved the correctness 
of this theory. In no instance has he evinced other 
than a retrogression, when once freed from restraint. 
Like a horse without harness, he runs wild, but, if har¬ 
nessed, no animal is more useful. Unfortunately, this 
is contrary to public opinion in England, where the 
vox populi assumes the right of dictation upon matters 
and men in which it has had no experience. The 
English insist upon their own weights and measures 
as the scales for human excellence, and it has been 
decreed by the multitude, inexperienced in the negro 
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