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Charles White, in a series of discourses delivered by him before the literary and philosophical society of Manchester in England; and published in London in Quarto in 1799.

The whole I now commit to the judgement and candor of the literary and philosophic world.

S.S. SMITH



ESSAY,
&c.

ON THE VARIETY OF COMPLEXION, FIGURE, &c. IN THE HUMAN SPECICIES.

THE unity of the human race, notwithstanding the diversity of colour, and form under which it appears in different portions of the globe, is a doctrine, independently of the authority of divine revelation, much more consistent with the principles of sound philosophy, than any of those numerous hypotheses which have referred its varieties to a radical and original diversity of species, adapted by the Creator, or by the necessary laws of the material world, to the respective climates which they were destined to inhabit.  As there are several species of animals which seem to be confined by the physical laws of their constitution to a limited range of climate, and which either cannot exist, or do not attain the perfection of their nature, in regions either much farther to the 

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-06-05 12:04:21 I think "&c." is an early form of 'etc."!! Reopened for one missed period, one typo, to add a double space between sentences (which was typical for the time), and to add a space before a semicolon (which it looks to me like the author does, for whatever reason). -Katatatatoo ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-06-05 07:37:49