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 they originally inhabited, they are evidently excluded from the probability of a common descent from one and the same primitive ancestor, and the plain inference is, therefore, that they are of separate and distinct creations.

And again. In order to have made the wild Boar the common ancestor of all those local varieties of the domestic Hog, it would have been necessary to have caught him; imported and domesticated him, and then to have subjected his descendants, in violation of the known laws of Nature, to an entire change of color and habit, different from that of their alleged ancestor. There is, in short, no more probability or reason, in the assumption of Professor Blumenbach's swinish unity of descent, than there is in the silly idea that all the domestic apples originally came from the little wild sour crab apple. And his illustration having failed, his assumption fails with it; and, instead of proving a unity of swinish descent he forcibly illustrates the fact of separate swinish creations; and, also, by analogy, strengthens the inference of the separate creations of the white and colored Races of man. Different species of animals have their varieties; and some of those varieties are indigenous to certain latitudes; and the habitat of some of them is limited to certain specific localities; and, they are as distinct and uniform in their identity, as varieties, as the genus, species or family are, to which they are related, in their classification. For example: The Horse, Zebra and Ass are varieties of the Equus species; The Elephant, Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus, of the Pachydermous species; The Dog, Wolf and Hyena of the Canine species; The Lion, Leopard and cat, of the feline species; The Baboon, Monkey and Ourang Outang, are of the Simia family, and I would ask, then, whether there is any one so blind to the laws of Nature,