AGASSIZ ON THE BLACK MAN.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1158, 13 March 1874, Page 4

AGASSIZ ON THE BLACK MAN.

The great Professor Agassiz (who has made, anatomically, the difference in the race of mankind his life study), in a recent lecture remarked :—" I have pointed out over a hundred specific differences between the bonal and nervous systems of the white man and the negro. Indeed their frames are alike in no particular. There is not a bone in the negro's body which is relatively the same shape, size, articulation, or chemically of the same composition as that of a white man. The negro's bones contain a far greater percentage of calcareous salts "than tlmsc of the whits man. Even the negro's blood is, chemically, a very different fluid from that which courses the veins of the white man. The whole organism of tho negro differs quite as much from the white man's as it does from a chimpanzee—that is, in his bones, muscle, nerves, aud fibres, the chimpanzee has not much further to progress to become a negro than the negro has to become a white man. This fact science iuexorably demonstrates. Climate has no more to do with the dift'erance between the white man and the negro than it has between the negro and tho chimpanzee, or than it has between tho horse and the ass, or the eagle and the owl. Each is a distinct and separate creation. Tho negro and while man were created as specifically different as tho owl and the eagle. They were designed to till different places ill tho system of nature. The negro is no more a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is a kind of bird by accident or misfortune ; tho negro is no moro the white man's brother than tho owl is the sister of the eagle, or the ass is tho brother of tho horse. How stupendous, and yet how simple, is the doctrine j;uftt flip Almighty Maker of the universe bas. cre-

ated inherent species of men, as ho has different species of tho lower animals, to fill dilfereut places and offices in tho grand scenery of nature."