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 As the facial angle is an index to the comparative strength of the intellectual faculties, the statement also shows the curious fact, that the lighter the complexion of the Race the higher and more intellectual the forehead; and vice versa, the darker the complexion of it the lower the forehead and the weaker the intellect. For, in accordance with the science of Phrenology, the reasoning faculties are located in the front, and the animal passions in the back part of the cranium. And, consequently, the white man having more frontal brain than the Black man, it necessarily follows, that it gives him an intellectual superiority over him. In those cases, where the white man's forehead is low, its depression is generally compensated for, by an increase of its capacity in width; but as a general rule the forehead of the Black man is both low in its facial angle, and narrow in width. Having demonstrated, from organic causes, the mental superiority of the white man over the black man, I now propose to institute a physiological comparison to show that there is not a single feature, in the whole physical formation of the black man, external or internal, that is identical with the corresponding features of the white man; and, in every case of dissimilarity, it will be perceived that the features of the black man except, perhaps, his lips and cheeks, approximate toward the features of those animals which rank next, in order, to the human species. The black man's forehead is lower than the white man's. His skull is thicker than the white man's—so thichthick [sic] that they can carry great burthens on their heads, and can butt their heads together, like Rams or Bulls, when fighting. His brain is smaller, in bulk, than the white man's. (Accord-