Page:An essay on the origin and relative status of the white and colored races of mankind.djvu/17

 The Indians of this country are called red men; but their complexion is not a true red—they are copper colored—which is a pale brick red tinged with yellow. The presumption is that Adam and Eve were of the same complexion; as Eve was made from a rib taken from Adam's side, while he was in a deep chloroformic sleep; and was made "bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh." The most eminent Naturalists agree that there are as many as five distinct varieties or Eaces of the human species or genus Homo, viz: The Caucasion or white Race; The Mongolian or yellow Race; The Indian or copper colored Race; The Malayan or brown Race; and the Etheopian, or black Race. Now let us see, whehter, by the laws of Nature, either the white or black Race could have come from any combination with each other, or from any of the other Races of an intermediate complexion. I take it for granted, that it is an admitted fact, that the offspring will follow the complexion of their Parents. If the Parents are white, the children will be white—if they are black, their children will be black: or if one of the Parents is white and the other black, then the complexion of their children will be midway between that of their Parents; and so it is, whatever the complexion of their Parents may be; and, therefore, according to the laws of Nature, the complexion of either the white or black man cannot possibly be derived from any crossing between his race and that of any other. For it is manifest that a cross of the Black man with any other race destroys his black complexion, and that likewise a cross of the white man with any other destroys his white complexion. Then how can the white man's complexion be accounted for, unless it be on the hypothesis that Adam and Eve were both white? Or how can the black man's complexion be accounted for, unlees they