Indigenous Races of the Earth

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5D6 TilE MONOGENJSTS AND cion of heresy. But, before quitting so dry a subject, I must gratify tho reader with a pair of extracts fi·om two different works,-parall?l in critical calibre and Aim ilar through an accident, that each of thmr authors boasts o/ an Allcmanic sumame-which will exemplify into what bel pleAs vagaries this apochryphal noun '.'blood" has lifted up two most talented monogcnists above the mult1tndo. Sample A is chosen from the pages of Sir Robert II. Schom­burO'lc">~~ writing for tho English public. A.~" Many scofrcrs have attempted to establish tho hypothesis, that tho first germs of tho development of the human race in America, can be sought for nowhere but in that quarter of ~he ~lobe;. but unless it can be proved that the laws of nature arc m d1rcct vwla­tion with Mosaic [sic!!!] records, which expressly say that' God has made of one blood all the nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth,' we must still appeal to that Holy Book for interpreta­tion [that is, 'we must' hunt through the Pentateuch for Acts XVII, 26 !]." . . Sample B is taken from some pages m the Oltarleston Medwal Joumal 65 9 composed by an auth01.600 writing for tho American public. With the exception of the figures appended, our compositors have been so good as to set it up in fac-simile. B.-" We are o.dvoco.tiug tho doctrine of the Unity of tho Human Ro.ce simply on scien­tific principles. Wo co.re not to make issues on points that have no legitimate b~o.ring 2 ou the subject to which we are restricted in this discussion. Those with whom we mtoud 3 to ho.vo no controversy ho.ve nothing to apprehend from our criticisms. Wo mo.y, how- 4 evel', hero observe that tho figures of dogs and of men (tho lo.tter only are of o.ny scien­tific vo.lue,) on tho co.stcrn monuments, ho.ve been carefully studied and delineo.tod by mo.ster-minds- men, o.t whoso feet Mr. Glidden has set as an humble copyist. They 7 ho.vo commenced giving to the world tho result of their scientific reseo.rches. Doth 8 Lepsiua o.nd llu.nsen have already p1·oclnimed their belief in tho doctrine of the Unity of the Human Ro.co, and the former, as we O.l'C informed, is now engaged in o. work, in 10 which he will offer roo.sons for tho faith tho.t is in him. 'rhus these monumental records, 11 which caused Gliddon to pronounce in tho lo.nguo.go of scorn o.nd ol1loquy a timde 12 ago.inst tho scriptures, convinced the minds of Lepsius and Bunsen of thoit> truih, o.nd 13 filled them with humility, reverence, and awe. Their scientific reseo.rchos so.tisfied 14 them of the doctrines proclaimed by Moses, o.nd confirmed by P11ul. 15 " • And (God) hath made of one blood all no.tions of men for to dwell on the fo.cc of 16 the earth, o.nd hath determined the times before o.ppointed, and the bonnds of thoir 1 7 ho.bitation.' Acts 17 ch. 26 v. 18 6118 Twelve Views in Britiall Guia11a, &c., Loudon, folio, 1841, p. 29. 65D Charleston, S. C., 1854 -republished 0.8 o. Monograph, "An Examination of the oho.ro.ctcristics of Genera and Species o.s o.pplicnble to the Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Ro.ce," pp. 22-3. Its author rides, or is bestridden by, two hobbies,- the ono theologicltl, o.nd the other mammalogicnl. His duplex equitation t>rnvw avrwv-(Soo STRAUSS, Vie de J68us, tro.nsl. Littr6, Paris, 1839, II, 1e po.rtie, pp. 302-13)-o.lways puts me in mind of an "old, and musty" Greek proverb, how-" Leucon carried one thing, and his o.s8 nuother." 1160 1ypes of Aianki11d, p. G28, foot-note 210; and" Memoil' of Morton," pp. !iii-vi. THE POLYGENJSTS. GU7 "These distinguished no.turnlists both arrived o.t the concluHion, from tlieso very l!l monuments, that tho negro races had only been developed in the course of ngos within 20 the A.frican tropics and were derived from Egypt. Tho minds of men are differently 21 constituted, and we here perceive what opposite imp1·csHions ll.l'e mttde on difl'orcnt 22 minds in vi~iting the same loco.litics, and in invcstigo.ting the sttmo subjects.'' 23 Now, in reprinting this specimen of the style adopted by a "Dutch-Reformed" theologcr in this country, my only rcO'rcts lie in the unavoidable mention of two world-renowned, and by myself much-honored, names- Chevaliers BuNSEN and LEPsws: at tho feet of whom (like St. Paul "at the feet of Gamaliel "Y>G1 I have always felt proud to sit for instruction,-rccoivcd, as not a slight portion of what little I know has been, oftentimes with mine own feet under their rcspccti vc mahoganies. What concerns the reader, however, is th{) logical dcduction,-on comparing lines 14-15 with line 19 of the above extract-that "Moses" and "Paul" wct·e "distinguished naturalists both" ! Nobody, who reads, writes, and ciphers, can be such an ignoramliS as not to know, that Chevaliers Bunsen and Lcpsius-occupied in other cqually-clovatcd branches of human science, such as archroology, history, philosophy, and linguistics-would disdain (whatever, as educated gentlemen, they may read about Natural History) to accevt an attribution to themselves severally of any scientific specialite not within the circumference of their respective studies. The pages of this volume will be the first intimation either of these Savans receives that both of them are suspected to be "naturalists," -and that, too, by a fractious sciolist who actually wrote a book to demonstrate the Unity of Mankilld without having read tho first syllable of Pnr­CJIAIW. 562 "Potctc frenarvi dallc risa? 0 mici valenti amici!" Where did either Chev. Lcpsius or Chcv. Bunsen over say, that "negro races* * *were derived from Egypt" [?](supra, line.~ 20-1). The last three lines, 21-3, prove how the same writer-utterly des­titute of any Egyptological works- fancies that the great Prussian Ambassador to Rome and England has visited Egypt. Everybody else knows that Chevalier Bunsen's travels never extended beyond Europe. Finally, the only expression, known to tho world, of Chev. Lop­sins's impressions, in regard to human monogenism or polygcnism, is derived from a casual remark made by him in a friendly letter to my respected colleague Dn. J. C. No1'1': and by the latter inserted in our first joint publication, for the very object of not involving tlJO honored Egyptologist of Berlin in any blame that might accrue to 661 Wore it obligatory upon me t.o digress upon Paulino theme$ in gonero.l, their ann.ly;·is would cost no more trouble than reference to ttn octttvo (Lon Jon, 1818), o.th·ihutcd to tho oo.pacinus brain of a groo.t jurist-Jf:ttEMY Bt·lN1' llA~r-entitlcd, "not Po.ul, but Jesus;" a11d published under the pseudonym of GAMALIEL SmTIJ, EsQ. 116> 1'ypes of .Ma11kind, p. liv.