The races of man Author:Robert Knox Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: come from Britain, and not from France. Give ua the statistics of the original families who keep themselves apart from the fresh blood imported into the province... more »; let us have the real and solid increase of the original habitans, as they are pleased to call themselves, and then we may calculate on the result. Had the colony been left to itself, cut off from Europe for a century or two, it is my belief that the forest, the buffalo, the wilde, and the Bed Indian, would have pushed him into the St. Lawrence, from the banks of which he never had the courage to wander far; amalgamating readily with the Red Indian by intermarriage (for the Celt has not that antipathy to the dark races which so peculiarly characterize the Saxon);—amalgamating with the Red Indian, the population would speedily have assumed the appearance it has in Mexico and Peru; to follow the same fate, perish or return to the original Indian; and finally, to terminate in the all but utter destruction of the original race itself. LECTURE II. PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS REGULATING HUMAN LIFE. In the rapid sketch of the dominant races of men I am about to submit to you (of the Saxon I have already spoken), I have endeavoured to comprise an outline of their history, viewed, as I have long been in the habit of viewing them, not as nations, but as races. I am well aware that when these lectures were first delivered, about five years ago, the opinions they contained were opposed to all the receivedopinions of the day. The world was so national, and race had been so utterly forgotten, that for at least two years after delivering my first course of lectures at Newcastle I had the whole question to myself. But now the press, even in insular England, has been, most reluctantly I believe, forced to take it up; to make admissions wh...« less