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tlfe& * ^ r oneaus opinions' dre eixpTodecf , a |§^ qs $ ead of seei ng ground f 6 r the gjSffeW and ill-treatirient of our fellowcreati ^ res in the difference of their ^ np l ^ xiori from our own , the ptiilosoftnej apd the Christian contemplate tjLshades of the human countenance , djflie does the variety of its features ,
3 &df beholds alike in both the provident dfesign and' work of the Supreme Architect . ' JE > r . Hunter , who considered this subject more accurately than has corainoply beeii done , determines absolutely against any specific difference aroon £ mankind . He introduces his
aujbject by observing , that on the question whether all the human race constituted one or more species , much Qpnfuston has arisen from the sense in tHiich the term species has been adopted . He accordingl y defines the term , afrd includes under it all those animals wftich pr 6 duce issue capable of pro
pagjatiftg-others resembling the original $ tdck from whence they sprung ; and m this sense of the term he concludes , that fill of them are to be considered as belonging to the same species . And as in plants one species comprehends several varieties depending on climate , soil , culture , &c . so he considers the
diversities of the human race to be Merely Varieties of the same species , produced by natural causes . Upon the whole , colour . and figure may be styled habits of body . Like cither habits they Sire created not by gteat and sudden ifnpr ^ ssiona , but by cdntinxial and almost imperceptible touch . es . Of
ha-^ Its ^ both . of mind and body , nations ate susceptible a s i well as individuals . They are transmitted to their dflfepiring and augmented by inheritance . -Long ingrowing to maturity , national featoVes , like national manners , become < fcked 'b ' nly fefter a succession of ages . 3 Phey become , however , fixed at last ;
* nd it \ ye can , ascertain any erect pro * traced by a givien state of climate , or oftifer circumstances * it Requires only « y ^ pettti 6 n during a sufficient length WWttie ^ tb ' augmentand impress it with «^ perfe ( ranerifc eharAdter . j ^ ltfe ascertained tha t what we derjio * - wfeate the skin of 1 $ he human body TOftsistatof three fjarts , separable from TO ^ ato therFvte . ttte » carf ~ ahin , Whksta n ^ Kleiiiafe the tinker or truet afkin pi ^ th ^ and a coagOrlated » ub » taWce Mm 4 ifc fNqttu ^ w
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agiilated atatfttafficeis thd ^ eat cofetBfin the skin , and that which causes thei * vari 6 us shades of cornplexioti rn thcP different inhabitants oC the globe , frocti the equator to the pofcs ^ bcirig , in the ' highest latitudes of the terriperatezone ^ generally fair , but becoming swarthy , olive , tawny and black , as we descend towards the south .
These different colours are with * out doubt best adapted td their respeek tive zones , although We are ignoratUf how they act in fitting us for situation * that are so different ; and the
capability of the human countenance to acv comniodate itself to every climate , by contracting after a due time the shadt ? proper to it , affords a fine illustratioii of the benevolence of the Alrnidhtvv
This pliancy of nature is favourable td the increase and extension of mankind and to the cultivation and settlemenfe of the earth : it tends to unite the most distant nations—to facilitate the acquisition and improvement of sciencyg , which would otherwise be confined to
a few objects and to a very limited range , and likewise by opening the way to an universal intercourse of m ei * and things , to elevate the-various na *» tions of the earth to the feelings t > f ^ common nature and a common interesti
Of Speech . In addition to whsft has already been said on the huiicrat voice , we may observe , that the organ * for effecting speech are the month , the windpipe and the lungs . The mouth needs no description . The windpipe ij * a passage commencing at the back par
of the mouth , and thence descending along the neck , itoptns into the lungs ; at the tipper jkart it is constructed « five thin cartilages , connected by li ga * inents and _ jp ut into motion by sinatt muscles . Tttesexrattilages fQrm a ktn < t of chamber at the head of the titbe ^ which' is situated artr the root o ^ the
tongue . The ospeniog &f this chana h $ s into the threat is ' a wety narrowehibfe ^ which is dilated and contacted to prc | W duce every change in the moduljtioir of the voice , by the mdsclfcs attached t 6 ' the ^ aMla ^ es ' . ' To defend this © pen >^ ing * Hhere'i 5 f ^ a beatrtifol dontrivaiicw of ^ an elastic v&lve which ; &Hs flat udpow it Wheneverwfe « waH ( yw , « lilce the kejp of a wind' kistruaient , and wJndoh
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/15/
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