Unity of the Human Race [pp. 1-57]

SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
No. XVII.
JANUARY, 1846.
ART. 1.-UNITY OF THE HUMAN RAcE.-A Letter ad dressed to the Editor, on the Unity of the Human
Race. *
To the Editor of the Southern ~uarterly Review:
SIR,-A denial of the unity of the human race, so far
from infringing on the veracity of scripture, will, I am satisfied, become one of the most solid grounds of its defence
and I venture to predict that, at no very distant day, this
opinion will be maintained by a large body of divines. How
could the Caucasian race of early times populate the continet~t of Africa from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good
Hope, when no race in the reach of history, not even the
~gyptians, unless by amalgamation with blacks, have been
able to penetrate Central Africa. Meltemet Ali has tried it
frequently, and in vain. I have shown, in my previous
communication, that the physical characters of the races, as
seen at present in the Egyptians, (though mixed,) Chinese,
Hindoos, Negroes, etc., existed fonr thousand years ago;
and I shall show, before I close, that if physical causes can
change a Caucasian into a Negro, it requires a series of ages
* The article published in the last number of this Review, entitled, "An
Issue with the Reviewer of Nott's Caucasian and Negro Races," was oriainally in the form of a letter addressed to the Editor, and should have so
appeared. The change in the form of the communication, from a letter to
an article with such title, was made dunn the absence of the Editor, and
without his knowledge or authority; and, as the epistolary form is more
agreeable to the views of the writer, and equally so to those of the Editor,
that form is retained in the present communication.-En. S. Ct. R.
1 vOL. IX-NO. 17.