Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Humanity: Its Fountain and Stream
WE give in the following pages the results of a quar ter of a century's research and investigation, condensed, it is true, but yet exhibiting-such a comprehensive view of the subject as we trust cannot fail of being interesting, instructive, and popular. Not being content with gam bolling along the banks of the expanded stream, we have everywhere endeavored to explore up to the fountain head. From the facts we have gathered, our conclusions differ in many respects from those of others who have examined and written on the same subject. But, nevertheless, we fearlessly submit them with can dor and confidence to the judgment of the present en lightened and. Inquiring age; 'not forgetting in the mean time that others, high in the confidence of their fellow men, have arrived at different conclusions, and entertain different views. The facts and arguments used to demonstrate the true cause of difference between the apparent distinct families of mankind being founded on facts, must, we think, stand the test of the most rigid investigation. If we have dis covered the key that opens the casket containing the secret of the different complexions among men, then the Portraits, produced at great expense in the body of the work, when stripped of their different complexions, must ever remain an unanswerable argument in favor of the brotherhood of man. We might have produced portraits of men of the lowest grade of the different types of the human family, and contrasted them with the highest order of the same type and the difference would be actually as great, if not greater, than between a highly cultivated African (leaving out the co'mplexion and hair) and an Englishman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
