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Europeans, whom he acknowledges to have degenerated by being removed to Africa, Asia, and South-America, are an example in the contrary progression. Carry the natives of Africa, or America to Europe, and mix the breed, as you do that of horses, and they will, in a short time, lose their dusky hue, and all the peculiar defects of their figure; and will acquire, in the same number of descents as horses, or any other animals, the high perfection of form which is seen in that polished country.
No, says his lordship, "a mulatto will be the result of the union of a white, with a black."--That is true in the first descent, but not in the fourth or fifth, in which, by a proper mixture of of races, and by the habits of civilized life, the dark tinge may be entirely effaced.
There resided in the college of New-Jersey, in the years seventeen hundred and eighty five, six and seven a striking exemplification of the above remark, in two young gentlemen of one of the most respectable families of the state of Virginia. They were descend-ed in the female line from the indian emperor Pow-hatan, and were in the fourth descent from the prin-cess Pocahuntis, a high-spirited and generous woman. Although all their ancestors in Virginia had retain-
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ed some characteristics, more or less obvious, of their maternal race, in these young gentlemen they appeared to be entirely obliterated. The hair and complexion, of one of them in particular, was very fair, and the countenance, and form of the face, per-fectly Anglo-American. He retained only the dark and vivid eye which has distinguished the whole family, and rendered some of them remarkably beautiful. If his lordship's argument, then, have any weight, as he supposes, it is only against his own position.
But he still pertinaciously repeats the conclusion, "That mankind must have been originally created of different species, and fitted for the different cli-mates in which they were placed, whatever change may have happened in later times, by war, or by commerce."
Let us ask, why fitted by a different organization, for the different climates in which they were placed? Is it because they could not exist in other climates? or because they attain the greatest perfection of their nature only in their own? Both these reasons are contradicted by experience. Let us remember "the changes which have been produced by war and by commerce." Nations have been transplanted