Preface.
To the Public:
Having made Nature and the Natural Sciences, my chief study, for the last half century, I submit the following pages to the public, as the result of my investigations relating to the enigmatical assumptions of the equality and unity of the white and colored races of mankind; which has, hitherto, so much perplexed Naturalists and Theologians; and which, I think, the Reader will find to be the only view of the subject, that is reconcileable with the laws of Nature and of Revelation. It is true that eminent Naturalists have foreshadowed separate creations of the Races, as reconcileable with the laws of Nature, but not with Revelation; and I, therefore, only claim to have advanced a step farther, where I find a full accordance with both.
Although my essay is mainly confined to the relative status of the extreme, white and black, races, nevertheless, the Reader will perceive, as he progresses, that it also incidentally developes the status of the intermediate Races.
Towanda, Pa., November 8th, 1871.
