Neglect of physicians, lawyers and merchants.

on foot, would soon remodel society, and almost banish crime. and vice.

I repeat it; the duty which parents owe, as parents, to their children, is a moral duty, is one of the highest moral duties man owes to his fellow man, and even to his God; for how can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our mind, and with all our strength, while we are blasting the images of God with a blighting curse, which will torment them with physical suffering through life, or imprint moral blemishes on their natures which are almost certain to become hideous moral deformities to abide upon them forever? How can we love our neighbor as ourselves, (and in the sense of the word here meant, surely hildren are our nearest neighbors,) when we curse them as effectually as if we beat out their brains, or made them drunkards or debauchees? These parental duties, then, being imperious moral duties, and of the highest grade, why should they not be preached? Can clergymen do their whole duty and not preach them? But, alas! they will not. They will probably be the very last, even to admit them, much less to preach

them.

Then who will? Who stand up for God and humanity in this war with evil at its root? Doctors should, but will not. Their business is to cure diseases, not to forestall them-to dose out pounds of cures (kills) instead of ounces of prevention by sowing correct physiological seed in the department over which they preside.

And as to lawyers, they are too busy taking pay for telling lies, and scrambling over one another and their fellow men, to give subjects like these, so totally foreign to their calling, a moment's attention. Merchants are too busy turning coppers, and the rich, in playing the fool-young women in catching husbands, and married women in cooking dinner and tending babies, to hear my voice.

But there is a small, a select band, Gideon's chosen few, culled out by test after test, who will blow the trumpet of reform with one hand, and distribute information with the other. To such, I commend this work. Take it; circulate it; urge it upon every parent, upon every young man and

Let information be disseminated.

young woman, especially upon those unmarried women who are on the qui vivi to catch a beau or to secure a husband. Let young women be remonstrated with, and persuaded to learn their duties as mothers, before they dare cast the first look of love, or even deck their persons so as to appear attractive. Give this work to the four winds. A better service cannot be rendered to mankind, than extending its circulation. Let it be the boon companion of every parent, and of all who contemplate marriage. Let other and abler works be prepared, and circulated throughout christendom. Let the whole human race, from Behring's straits to Cape Horn, and "From Greenland's icy mountain, To India's coral strand,"

be roused to the importance of learning and obeying those laws which govern the transmission of physical, intellectual, and moral qualities from parents to their descendants, down to the remotest generations. Then shall the garden of Eden cover the whole earth, and render holy and happy all the nations and individuals that inhabit it.

But having thus far dwelt quite long enough, perhaps too long, upon the outskirts and importance of our subject, let us proceed directly to an examination of the subject itself—to hereditary facts, and the laws that govern them.

In prosecuting this subject, let us first examine mankind in masses, and then by families, and see whether various forms of the body and face, various diseases, as consumption, scrofula, the gout, &c., various mental qualities, as insanity, appetite, anger, kindness, poetry, a talent for mathematics, or reasoning, or writing, or speaking, &c., &c., are or are not hereditary-do or do not descend from parents to children through successive generations, as far as they can be traced, and thus learn first our parental duties, and secondly the conditions requisite for becoming parents, and the means of perfecting offspring.

Man now what he has always been.

CHAPTER II.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF RACES, MASSES, AND NATIONS, IN PART HEREDITARY.

SECTION I.

THE COLORED RACE.

"And their brethren, among all the families of Issachar, were valiant men of might."

THAT man is now what he was in the beginning, and has been ever since, as far as both his physical form and organization are concerned-that he had from the first, hands, feet, eyes, mouth, lungs, bones, and muscles, and the same number and general form of each just as he now has-that he had the same propensities and moral faculties then that he now has, the same power of reason, the same primary sentiments of justice, of kindness, and of worship, the same appetite for food, the same domestic feelings, the primary faculties of resistance, fear, love of money, love of power, and passion for glory, the same fundamental powers of observation, recollection of shape, of places, of events, of colors, &c.-will not probably be questioned by any one other than a mere hypothetical theorizer. As far back as we have any history of him, whether sacred or profane, his constitutional and original qualities have been what they now are. Slight changes, induced by climate and circumstances, appear in different races and ages, but at heart, all appear to have been And the fact is most singular, that even now, among the different races, and nations, and tribes of men, notwithstanding all the changes to which for ages they may have been subjected-that different forms of government, and opposite modes of education, and circumstances every way conflicting, have, from time immemorial, exerted their utmost power to effect a radical change-yet the oneness of our race is most apparent. The avenues to the human heart are the same in all. All nations and races bow subdued at the shrine of beauty; all yield to the power of love; all love their children; all eat; all scramble after property; all have a religion

Races differ.

The African race.

A fact.

of some kind; all feed and shelter the benighted stranger; all have ideas to express, and express them, and that by languages, the frame-work and fundamental elements of which are alike; all sleep; all decorate themselves; all are subdued by kindness, and angered by abuse; so much so, that he who has learned human nature once, need not learn it again.

Yet, though the fundamentals of our race are the same in all portions of the earth, different races and nations evince lesser differences in propensity and intellect, and even in the color of their hair, skin, &c. Though all have muscles, brains, &c., yet the texture of some races is fine, of others coarse. And there are differences in the tone and character of different races. The colored race is characterized quite as much by the tone of their feelings, the peculiarities of their intellects and expressions, as by the color of their skin. Their movements, their mode of walking, their tones and laugh, are as different from those of white men, as are their noses, or eyes, or lips. So of other races. The Indian has an Indian character born in him, and lying back of all educational influences; and so of other races, and of nations.

But more particularly. The color of the colored race is certainly congenital. It is born in them, and forms a part of them. All climes, all ages; bear the mark. Education cannot reach it, for it is hereditary, and caused solely by parental influences.

A fact bearing on this point. Two white parents in New Jersey, were very much astonished to find in their child unequivocal marks of the African race and blood. It had the flat nose, thick lips, curly hair, and dark skin, of a mulatto, so unequivocal, that strong suspicions were entertained of the mother's unfaithfulness. The father was thrown into a state of mind bordering on derangement, and suffered beyond endurance, first by suspicions of the incontinency of a wife whom he loved most dearly, and on whom he doted; and secondly, by the reproaches of his neighbors. His wife protested her innocence in terms so strong and solemn, that he was finally led to believe in her integrity. Still, no explanation of the phenomenon appeared. At length he sailed for France, and visited a town on its frontiers where her family

had resided for several generations, and found, to his juy, that his wife's great grandfather was an African. And yet no traces of the colored race had appeared between this child's great grandfather, and this great great grandson, of the filth generation. This shows that the physual charac!1144168 of the race still remained, and though they run under ground for five generations, yet that they al length come to the surface.

In ail mulattors, the physical characteristics of the colored rare appar visible, but become less and still less so in proportion as the parenduste is less and less colored. Hence, by luvning at a mulatto, a pretty accurate estimate can be formed of the proportions of his parent320. And I am prepared, frum cxtelse observation, to add, that the phenol, griral doselipments (í mulattores approach more and nure towards ue Lurpean ty of head, in proportion to the amount of Ljan bloed that thows in their veins.

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