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 and, however homogeneous he may claim only of colored races to be—in his coveted affiliation—the white man, with his fair complexion, his ruddy cheek, his ruby lip, his expressive eye, his intellectual forehead, his superior aptitude, his great powers of conception, comprehension, calculation, and invention, was the favored and crowning work of creation, as he proudly stalked forth in the mental image of Divinity, fresh from the illimitable conceptions of infinite wisdom, and the omnipotent hands of creative power.