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 second and third crossing, the projeny becomes sickly and consumptive; and very often, death prematurely ensues before they reach the third or fourth crossing. The same natural law that inhibits an increase of the varieties of the human species also prohibits an increase of the varieties of the several animal species, below that of the human species. For example: After the first crossing between the Horse and the Ass, whose projeny are Mules, further procreation ceases; and so, also, in the crossings between different varieties of the same species of other animals. And the only difference between them, and the crossings between the white and black races of mankind, is that the crossing between those Races does not cease until the third or fourth generation; while that, between the lower animals, generally, ceases after the first crossing. And it is a singular and significant fact that the crossings between all nations of the white Race, continue without interruption, and with improved and healthy projeny, through all ages. I would here remind our christian friends that this miscegenation doctrine is in direct violation of the mandate of our Creator, given to us in the Biblical History of creation, to "be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth," because, if carried out to its full extent, instead of increasing our species by fruitfulness, it would, ex necessitati, result in eventual barrenness and extinction. Professor Blumenbach, a German Naturalist of some note, who, himself, recognized the five Races into which mankind is divided, in pandering to preconceived opinions through popular credulity, endeavored to prove their unity of descent from Adam, by showing, by way of illustration, a physical resemblance between man and the Hog; after which, he says there are different varieties of the Hog; which he alleges came from a common ancestor, as well as of man; and asserts that, in