Canaan Identified With the Ethiopian [pp. 321-383]

1842.] Canaan Idenitfied with the Ethiopian. 321
us to by-gone~days, will be corroded, and the unwritten past
will be veiled in the shroud of oblivion, whose sacred
folds will forbid even the intrusions of fancy. We love to see
imagination revelling in the mysteries of human transgression and existence. It may result in no good, but it
yields food for the mind, it gives freshness to the intellectual
faculties, it expands the soul of man, and when we turn our
reflections from the contemplation of the ideal, we are
sure t6 be better satisfied with the rough lot of human
existence.
ART. 111.-i. Report of the House of Commons of ~reat
Britain on the subject of Negro Slavery in the West
Indies. London. 1832.
2.Report of the Investigating Committee qf the m)use
of Commons, on the Condition of the Operatives in the
Manufactories, including the Testimony of eminent
Physicians, as to the causes of Disease among them.
London: 1832.
3.The Shame and ~Thry of England, by J. EDWARDS
LESTER. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1842.
In the classification of mankind into different species,
the Ethiopian and Caucasian occupy the extremes. If
they be pnved to have a common ancestor, of course all the
intermediate varieties, erected by naturalists into distinct
species, may safely be referred to a common ancestor like wise Conscious of our deficiencies, we have not come
up to this subject trusting to our own feeble powers, but
have taken the trouble to visit London, Rome and Paris,
and gather fi~m the store-houses of scienc~, every thing we
could find to assist us; and, moreover, have called to our
aid some of the best Hebrew scholars, eminent anato mists, physiologists and natural historians of the age.
On compai5ng the peculiarities, anatomical and physiolo.
gical, found in the Ethiopian race, (which have induced
naturalists to class that race as a distinct species,) with the
-Hebrew texts of those passages in the Bible relating to Ca naan, we found, to our astonishment, that one was a tran script of the other. The Hebrew, in regard to Canaan, is
rewritten in the anatomy and physiology of the negro. So