NO. 40.

,racIice of foreign ats and sciences.
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practice of foreign ats and sciences.

 'lt is unnecessary 10 enier into an exS animation of the ceIata questio whether he varieties of the human race Tn Afri- ca originally sprung from different sour ces or whether they all belong 10 the same stock, bu, changed to the state in which we find them by tue influence of circumstances in the lspses of age.- Whatever conclusion may be come to on this point, cannot in anywise affect he question as to the comparative intelS ligence of the African people. The same circum stances that are supposed by those who contend for the original

 identity of the races 10 have SD greatly affected their appearance and physical capacities, could hardly fail to have an equally powerful influence ovef their mental faculties. This, in fact, is sob- stantally admitted by Dr. Prilchard. who has ably coniended for their com. ron origin, and the equality of their intellect with that of olhe. races.

 ''The tfbe,' says he, in whose pre- valent conformation the negro type is dscernable in an exaggerated degree, are uniformly in the lowest stage of hu, nan society; they are either feroclous savages, or stupid, sensual, and indolent: Such are the Papals, Bnloms, and oihs er rude hordes on the coast of Western Guinea, and many tribes near the slave coast and in the Eight of Benin; coun- tries where the slave trade has been carried on 10 he greatest extent, and has exercised it's usually baneful infu~ ence. On Ihe other hand, wherever we hear of Negro State, the inhabitants of which have attained any considerable degree of improvement in their social condition, we constantly find their phys. ical characters deviate considerably from the sirongly-marked or exaggera.! ted type of the negro. The Ashantee, the Sulema, the Dahomans, are exem> plicalions of this remark. The Ne. groes of Guber, and Hausa, where a con. siderable degree of civilization has long existed, ne, perhaps, the finest race of genuine Negroes on the whole continent, unless the Jelofs are 10 be excepted.- The Jelofs have been a comparatively civilized people from the era of their first discovery by the Portuguese.'

 Here we have it distinctly laid down that the eyi,tence of the distinguishing features of the Negro race in strongly marked degree is uniformly associated with the lowest state of ba,barism and that as they ,ecede from this strongly marked type we find greater degree of civilization and improvement. The inevitable conclusion is, that every va riety of the Negro race, which compri- ses the inhabitants of almost all Csntfal Africa, is inicaiive of mental infetio:lty; ard that :erociiv and stupidity are the characteristics of fhose tribes, in which the peculiar Negro features are found most developed.

 We believe that this is a perfectly correc, statement, and we do not know that anything that can be said could show more conclusively the tddieal in- ferioriiy oi the grea, bulk of the African people.