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Show 184 ON THE SLAVERY AND CoM MERCF. analogy of nature, and the conclulion will be this: " that as fhe tempered the bodies of the different fpecies of men in a dif. fcrent degree, to enable them to endure the refpective climates of their habitation, fo ihe gave them a variety of colour and appearance with a like benevolent defign." To fum up the whole. If the fcriptures are true, it is evident that the poltcrity of Cain are no more; that the curfe of l-Imn has been accomplilhed; and that, as all men were derived from the £1me ll:ock, fo this variety of appearance in men mult either have proceeded from fo111e intcrpolition of the Deity; or from a co-operation of certain caufes, which have an effect.upon the human frame, and have the power of changing it more or lefs from its primitive appearance, as they happen to be more or lefs numerous or powerful than thofe, which acted upon the frame of man in the firlt feat of his habitation. If from the interpofition of the Deity, then w~ mull: conclude that he, who bringeth good out of evil, pro· duced .it for their convenience. If, from the co-ope.ration of the caufes before re-lated,. OF THE H UM!\N SPECIES. Ia ted, what argument may not be found againil: any fociety of men, who lhould happen to differ, in the points alluded to, from ourfelvcs ? If, on the other hand, the fcriptures are falfe, then it is evident, that there was neither fuch a perfon as Cain, nor Ham, nor Canatln ; and that nature bcil:owed fuch colour, features, and form, upon the different fpecies of men, as were bell: adapted to their lituation. Thus, on which ever fuppofition it is founded, the whole argument mull: fall. And indeed it is impoffible that it can ibnd even in the eye of common fenfe. For {f you admit the .form of men as a juftification of !lavery, you may fubjugate your own brother: if. Jeaturu, then you mull: q uarrel with all the world: if colour, where are you to il:op ? It \s evident, that if you travel from the equator to the northern pole, you will find a regular gradation of colour from black to white. NoV( if you can jull:ly take him for your !lave, who is of the deepcil: die, what hinders you from tak~ ng him alfo, who on I y differs from the * former |