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 It is quite possible, as has been remarked by the intelligent writer already quoted Kinmont), that the African race is yet destined to show to the world a new and loftier species of civilization than has yet been seen, — not the cold and hard civilization of cultivated intellect merely, but the heavenly civilization of goodness, peace, and mutual love. "There can be no question," he says, "that when the epoch of their civilization arrives, in the lapse of ages, they will display in their native land some very peculiar and interesting traits of character, of which we, a distinct branch of the human family, can at present form no conception. It will be — indeed, it must be — a civilization of a peculiar stamp; perhaps we might venture to conjecture, not so much distinguished by art, as a certain beautiful nature, — not so marked or adorned by science, as exalted and refined by a certain new and lovely theology; — a reflection of the light of heaven, more perfect and endearing than