The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

130 MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
In order to acquaint ourselves with the operations
and results of these laws, let us first discuss the reproduction
of plants, in which the matter creation is
alone represented; and, since the manner of their
reproduction is more g-enerallj understood, let us take
as an illustration, the flowering- plants, in which the
sexes are represented in the male, and in the female
flower. As is well known reproduction results from
the union of the pollen, or fecundating- dust, of the
stamen of the male flower with the pollen of the pistil
of the female flower. This indicates that one side or
part of the matter creation, exists in the male flower;
and that its corresponding- side or part exists in the
female flower. These opposite sides or parts, each
act
as a magnet which attracts its corresponding- sid^
or part in the opposite sex; and, when united, the
matter creation is perfected and reproduced in the
youn^ plant. But if, from any cause, the matter
creation, as it exists in its imperfect state in the
respective g-erms of the male and the female flower^f
are not united and perfected in the female flower,
these vital elements are wasted, and the reproduction
of the matter creation in the 3'oung- plant is not:
accomplished. The same law holds gfood with the
animal, in which the two Creations- Matter and
Mind, exist in the respective g-erms of the male, and
the female. One side or part of the Matter Creation,
and one side or part of the Mind Creation, exists in
an imperfect state in the male germ; the corresponds