Page:An essay on the origin and relative status of the white and colored races of mankind.djvu/31

 Now the Black man, in his native country, with rare exceptions, is not a tiller of the ground; nor was he in this country, until he was compelled to till it by the coercion and teachings of the white man. I will now present a statement of the average facial angle of each of the five varieties, into which the Human Species is divided, and also that of the Ourang Outang, or Black Ape, in order to show, in the graduated scale of creation, the close physical approximation of the form of the head and face of the black man, to that animal, as one of the higher order of the brute creation. The facial angle or angle of the face, refers to the elevation or depression of the forehead; and the data is obtained by taking the average measurement of a certain number of skulls. The higher the number of degrees, the nearer the forehead approaches to a perpendicular line, which is called 90 degrees. I am thus particular, in regard to this facial angle, because it also indicates the general standard of intellect.

It will thus be seen, by this statement, that the average facial angle of the white man is only 5 degrees below a perpendicular line, while that of the Black man is 20 degrees below it; and only 10 degrees above the Ourang Outang, or black Ape; and is supposed to be still less above that of the Chimpanse and Gorilla; and that being the case, he approximates more nearly to the Monkey tribe, in his craniological formation, than he does to the higher order of the human species, with which he is identified as a variety.