Tie Negro Race.
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The following article upon the subject of Negro character, the capacity Of the race as a race. will be read with inter est al thls time. It is taken as a stan dard work of acknowledged ability, viz : Brande's Encyclo, edia.

 'Ii has long been a favorte theory of many philosophers thai the negro races are naturally inferior in roint of intel lect; and do not possess the same ca- pacity for improvement as the Europe, ans, or people of the Caucasian variety This supposition has, however, been ve- hemently denied; and il has been cons tended, over and ovef again, that the peculiar circumstances under which they have been placed sufficiently ac- count for the condition of the Africans flor their want of literature and their low civilization. That great weight should be attached to the considerations now mentioned is tue; but still we do not think that they are sUiii tent wholly to account for the existing state of h ngs Egypt was, at a remote period, inc prin- cpal seat of science and of art; and various sections of Africa were in con, tact with and had pretty extensive in> tercourse with the Egyptians, and also with PhGnicans, and afterward the Ro- mans. But they seem 10 have profiled little or nothing by this associalion.-- And while the people of Greece, Asia Minor and Magma G, ecia raised thems selves in a comparatively brief period 10 the hgest pitch of civil zation and re, finement, the nations of Africa continue without solitary exception, down to he pesent day inner sed in the grosesl bar t. barism. Surely however, during the space of 5000 or 4000 years, opporth mites must have ben afforded to some oi them to make some advances. But if so, not one has had the sagaci,y to profit by them. Africa, in fact, does not seem to ohaveproduced single great man. She has had no Hercules, no Minos, no Theseus; no Coofucius. no Manco Capac. Among all the varie. ties of superstition that exist in il, we look in vain for hero worship-for the divine honors paid in rude but impro' :, nations in other parts of the world h public gratitude, 10 departed heroe le gislators, and authors of impor' .ant dis coveries in the arts.

 With the exception of ,oa, of tb ancient Egy ptians and Ftp s,nians who's descent is involved in ' ..e creates, mn certainty. almost all r e civilization in, exists in Africa see' IS to be of foreig o'ig'n. ne ihtr' duction of Mshom, dan'sm' though in debased form, ha gone Tar 10 Do dish Canibalism from m; ny coun'fie' :; and some of them hav 1 also adoP ed the letters and literature (

 Araoia But the progress they hay

 h''nesto made is not such as to lead [

 an, very sanguine anlicipaiions as

 J.',ir future advnncemcnt; and it wouI ), rot indeed be very philosophical to soI pose that those who have been who'll unable to produce anything origina should attain to much eminenee in lh