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Show 552 THE MONOGENISTS AND Now, whilst those lowest tribes of negro man-caters dwell in the same zoological province as tho black Gorillas and Oltimpanzees, is it, I would ask, through fortuitous accident that, whore tho red orun()"s of tho East Indinn A rchipclago roam tho jungle, thoro should exiHt a cannibalism almoHt parallel, although not morcantile,-as shown in th reddish B'hattas, &c., who, some years ago, devoured two English missionaries, amongst other instances? It is to be romarko<.l, however, that, as voyagers observe cannibalism in Polynesia, and also in Now Zoalaud,121 docs not se~m so much to have been au instinctive craving among Maori nations, as to h~vo gradually grown into a habit of luxurious feeding among naut10al wanderers who, in their vicissitudes of navigation from island to island, wcr often compelled to eat each othor.425 ' ~t is t~mo ~o arrc~t ~he course of those remarks; the object of whtch ch10fiy ts, to el1mmate from furthot• discussion some objection14 that tho unavoidable brevity of tho ensuing sections will compel me to ~ass by unnotic d. Confined within some 200 p:=wos, my contributwn to the present volume must fall very far short of tho materials collected for its elaboration. I apprehend, nevertheless, that readers of tho preceding commontaey are now prepared for tho assertion that a current ~hraso, "tho unity of tho human species," if it possess any real meamng, 1 'avos us in utter darkness as to tho scientific ~u stion of mankinCI's lineal derivation from a single pai1·; or as to ~ts c?~ntcr theory, th~ plurality of origin from many pairs, situate m dtftcrent gcogr·aplncal centres, and possibly iormod at difl:eront cpocltas of creation ot· of evolution. Chronology we have found to be a "broken reed" for any event anterior, say, to the 15th contur • H. o.: so that thoro xists no positive limit, determinable by cipher: t.o human antiquit~ npo~1 oa1'Lh, save such as palroontol gy-a scicnc~ commenced by Lt~tor: m EHgland, Blumenbach in crmany, and f~nndod on ~rue pnnctplcs by Cuvior in France-may in the futnrc <h cover. 'Io talk of years, or hundreds of them, in tho actual stat '" "Cos abominl\b1o ooquinsl"-ns tho gnllo.nt CAl'ITATN& LAPI.AOFJ ( Voya!JC autour rlu ~(o~de, &c., sur ~a corvette l<1 "Favorite," 1880-2, Paris, 8vo, text, 1836, IV, p. 8-131) lOd1gnautly exclll!ma, !lftor witnessing tho morality of their women n.nd L1 1 p . of tho n 1'1 . 10 turnn.n 1 opnMt~ island.' on. IC same pngos gtvo au oxcollont idoa, too, of tho missionm·ios iu tlmt romoto ' 211 "I~ will ~robab1y .be found, on further examination, however, thnt, with tho ox co tion of the <hsgustmg prnctlco of cannibalism, tho black oolor with crisped lt•i 1 • co , p thoro a · f . ' " , mmon .o n 11 , . ro :s many pomts o thff~ronco botwoen tho [Negrillos] different islllndot·s of tho group, ns ctwcon nny two races m tho Pnoiflc," sr~ys EnsKrNE (Journal of a C'· · & · II. M. S. " llnvnn!ll1h " I.ondon 8vo l 858 l 6) I llttse, c.' m 1\rioij · ns 1loes D p ' T ' ' ' p. · Io confirms nlso T•• u r,AOI'l on mis~ion-p . ' 8 u KTIT II liARS ( Voy. autour du lJfonde, &c., fr!gate la "Venu8" 1836-() nr1s, vo, text, 1818· I pp 817-86· If p 878 . IV 8 • ' uouT(fslctduGrandO~ p .· 8 • ' . ' ,pp.70-8);nottomontionMo:lutN-c an, nus, vo, 1887; I, pp. 210-867; II, pp. 288-32~, 616). TliJ~ POLYGF.NISTS. of this science, is simply absurd,-a mere illustration of what Orcg426 pwpcrly stigmatizes as "the humiliating sul)Lcrfogcs resorted to, by men f science, to show that their discov rica at·c not at variance with any text of Scripture." Other conclusions the reader will draw for himself. On tho majority of these problems my own opinions assumed definite shape between 1845 aud 1850; but, inasmuch as iL is ·trsLomary for aLlthors to utter, at some time or other, their individual "profession of £~Lith," I may hero be pcrmiLL d to recall, as mine, some vassagcs of the tlti1·d lecture on "Egyptian Archroology," (lelivcrcd 427 in my last course at this city, more than six years ago. Th y have since remained incditccl; and the only value I aLta ·h Lo them accrues ii·om tl10 circumstance that, written at the suwresLion of my honored ii·iond the late Samuel Georg Morton, tb y have become to me a memento of past intcrchangot; of thought with one of tho noblest or men. " Cr aLive Power has veiled, equally, from human ken tho m·igin "of man and his end. If any al'gumcnL were required to improsli "upon my mind the beneficence of tho Creator towards hifl orca" turcs12B-any fact, that in the bmin of a human being of cultivatc(l "intelligence, and which, whispered to each of us in the 'still, small "voice' of cons icncc, proves the goodness of Deity, not mer ly to "mankind, but to all animate subBtances created by his will,- it is, "that, like cvct·y other animal, Man knows not tho hour of his birth "or of his death; can discover, by no process of retrospc tivo ratio" cination, tho moment when he entered this lifo; nor ascertain, by "anticipation, Lhc precise instant when he is to depart from it. "An example will illustrate my meaning: "Leaving aside, j n this question, those traditionary legends of our "respective infancies, which, in themselves, may be t1·ue-although "received as inevitably they must be, on tho "ipse dixit" of otl1crs, "to us th~so accounts of the cradle and nursery arc not ce,·tain/.)!)" each individual's memory can carry his personal history back to tho 426 Creed of Christendom, pp. 2, 45- 61. . , ~7 Philadclphin, Chino~o Museum, 6th January, 1851 :-"North Amortonn and Gazette, .Tun. 7. D .,a l3oyond all works, that of my venerable fl'iond, M. ITI!lnOULl! STnAus-. unoron;rM (TMologie de la .Nature, Paris, a vola. 8vo, 1852) contains tho n~lost de~onstrn~ton o~.Ct·cativo wi~dom and boncvolcnco through tho soienco of c<>mpo.rattvo physiology, m ':111ch tho n.uthor of "Anatomic descriptive and compa1·ativo du Cho.t," is known by no.tumhsts to be an unsurpassed udopt. . . 429 V.roo, Scimza Nuova (trnnslnted by "I' Au tour do l' Essa1 sur Ia fo~m~t10~ du Dogrno Co.tholiquo," L'nri s, 12mo, 1844; pp. 41-4)- Axioms IX- XVI; on tho dtatmct..ion botwcou the " true," and tho "CCl'tain." |