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 The transverse serrations or sutures in the white man's skull; and his bones, cartileges, ligaments, &c., all differ from those of the Black man's. Colored infants, in their approximation towards the physical precocity of the lower animals, can walk and run at a much earlier age than white infants; and, in their native country, after the birth of their first child, the breasts of the women hang down below their navals; and their children, born afterwards, when only two months old, without assistance, cling to their mothers' back and draw their nourishment from her breasts, thrown to them over her shoulders. The advocates of the mental equality of the black and white races are obliged to go outside of the ranks of the. black man, with very rare exceptions, and claim for his race the talents of a Fred. Douglas, a Selma Martin, a John M. Langston, a Solomon Cooper, and others of a mixed race, who have inherited their talents from their white ancestry; and it is as untrue to call those men black men, or negroes, as it would be to call them white men—they are neither. From his peculiar organism, the black man can never be pre-eminent in the higher or more useful and intricate branches of mathematics, which are the true test of the strength of the mind; and he is behind all the other races in mechanical inventiveness. In fact the faculty of inventiveness seems to be graded according to race. The anglo saxon, of the Caucasian race, possesses it in the highest degree; the Chinese and Japanese, of the Mongolian race, with their oblique almond-shaped eyes, and small features, come next, as is shewn by their art of building, polishing minerals, manufacture of Japan wares, silks and other fibrous fabrics; but they have attained no pre-eminence with the white Race, in the cultivation of the fine arts of Painting, Sculpture, Music, &c, although they are the oldest