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If then in outward manner, form, and mind,<br />

You find us a degraded, motley kind,<br />

Wonder no more, my friend! the cause is<br />

plain,<br />

And to lament the consequence is vain."<br />

(<strong>The</strong> Works <strong>of</strong> J. Hookham Frere, vol. ii. 1872,<br />

p. 334.))<br />

If we consider all the races <strong>of</strong> man as forming a<br />

single species, his range is enormous; but some<br />

separate races, as the Americans and Polynesians,<br />

have very wide ranges. It is a wellknown<br />

law that widely-ranging species are<br />

much more variable than species with restricted<br />

ranges; and the variability <strong>of</strong> man may<br />

with more truth be compared with that <strong>of</strong><br />

widely- ranging species, than with that <strong>of</strong> domesticated<br />

animals.<br />

Not only does variability appear to be induced<br />

in man and the lower animals by the same general<br />

causes, but in both the same parts <strong>of</strong> the

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