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The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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MAN, AND THE NEGRO.<br />

Kve there was one side or part of *'a living soul/*<br />

which, when perfected, bj being- united with its corresponding<br />

side or part which existed in him, would<br />

produce an immortal being, which, when its<br />

physical<br />

life was ended would take its flight<br />

from the scenes of<br />

earth to an endless existence in the realms of eternity.<br />

Hence, in contra-distinction to the female animals—<br />

the mothers of all dying. Eve, this immortal being,<br />

was the mother of<br />

all living.<br />

After endorsing Blumenbach's division of the<br />

human species into<br />

"five races of men"— **the Caucasian,<br />

or European; the Mongolian, or 'Asiatic;<br />

the <strong>In</strong>dian,<br />

or American; the <strong>Negro</strong>, or African, and the<br />

Malay," and giving their various complexions, etc.,<br />

Dr. Young says:<br />

Thus we see the Caucasians are white, the Mongolians<br />

are yellow, the <strong>In</strong>dians are copper-colored, the<br />

Malayans are dark-brown and the <strong>Negro</strong>es<br />

pleasing variety of colors. <strong>The</strong>se<br />

black — a<br />

all belong to the one<br />

great family of man, proving that unity in diversity<br />

and diversity in unity<br />

is the law of Nature."<br />

Did it never occur to Dr. Young<br />

that if God had<br />

wanted a **species<br />

— man," composed of different<br />

**racesof men," and presenting *'a pleasing variety

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