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man, is that of an exceedingly slow and gradual
development. The different regions of the earth
have been stocked with different branches of the
human family, strikingly dissimilar to each other
in their persons, in their physical powers, and in
their mental constitutions—each, however, being
exactly adapted to the part which they are
respectively called upon to perform in the great
drama.
THE GREAT DIVISIONS IN THE HUMAN FAMILY.
Thus the races of Central and Southern Asia are
endowed with very peculiar physical and mental
powers, differing esentially from those of the
prevailing race in Europe, which is called the
Caucasian race, and both differing essentially
also from those of the African races. The
differences which exist would seem to be innate
and permanent, so far as we can judge from the results
each particular branch being able apparently to
attain only to a, certain degree of refinement and civilization, and these remaining unchanged, or almost unchanged, for many centuries. The Chinese,
the Malays, and the negroes of Africa appear
to have subsisted in substantially their present
condition from a very early age, while the
Caucasian race has been constantly progressive,
having built up in succession a great number of
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