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 of hair and eyes peculiar to himself; and so also the other colored races. Whereas the white man and the domestic animals generally—such as the Horse, Cow, Goat, Hog, Dog, Rabbit, Goose, Chicken, &c, have eyes and hair or plumage of different and various colors. And it is also a curious and corroborating fact that, in the vegetable Kingdom, the wild fruits, like the wild animals, in the animal Kingdom, are each invariably of the same color and form; and do not cross or intermix like the domestic fruits. You may plant the seed of the wild crab apple where you please and it will invariably produce the same kind of Tree and Fruit—and so it is of other wild Fruits—but the seed of domestic Fruits—such as the Apple, Peach, Plum, Apricot, Cherry, Grape, kc, often produce new varieties of Tree, Vine and Fruit, different from that borne by the original Parent Tree or Vine. Therefore, reasoning by analogy, we may infer that the Black man bears the same relation to the animal kingdom that the wild animals and, Fruits bear to the animal and vegetable Kingdoms; and as lie partakes of the semblance of the wild animals, in the uniform color of his eyes and hair or wool, and approximates nearer to them in his physical formation than any of the other Races, as I shall show hereafter, it is evident that he is the connecting link, in the great chain of animal creation, between the lowest variety of the genus Homo or man; and the highest order of the Simia genus or Monkey Tribe. And again: In the history of creation, we are told that "there was not a man to till the Earth," "and the Lord God took the man [Adam] and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." And after his violation of the command of God, in eating the forbidden Fruit, it further says—"and therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground."