Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . 52 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. girded as the executors and as the labor-saving machineryof the world from time immemorial. This is doubtless inBOme di gree B perversion of the grand principle which theyillustrate, but it shows an instinctive recognition of this resem-blance, not only in those who make a slave of the negro, butin the negro himself. There is something peculiarly noble,dutiful, and trustworthy, in the features of the black fellowwh«> bears this resemblance — rude wdien caught, and yetbeautiful from his adaptation
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . 52 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. girded as the executors and as the labor-saving machineryof the world from time immemorial. This is doubtless inBOme di gree B perversion of the grand principle which theyillustrate, but it shows an instinctive recognition of this resem-blance, not only in those who make a slave of the negro, butin the negro himself. There is something peculiarly noble,dutiful, and trustworthy, in the features of the black fellowwh«> bears this resemblance — rude wdien caught, and yetbeautiful from his adaptation to his various The elephant exhibits this beauty of adaptation the veryclay that he is captured; he takes to service almost immediately, which can be said of no other animal. His suscepti-bility of improvement is uncommonly great. This is true ofthe African, and hence he is capable of attaining to the high-est condition morally and intellectually, the correspondent ofwhich is the lowest physical condition when the former andthe latter are not united. But his development is exceed-ingly slow, as is also that of the elephant. The negro presented in the first of these chapters is a merebabe. Precocity in the human family, although highly flat-tered, is less to be desired than the tardy development of thenegro. Every one may judge what the difference will be in THE ELEPHANT. 53 the final result. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has some fineremarks on this subject, in her popular work entitled UncleToms Cabin, or Life among the Lowly, which it would besuperfluous to quote, since it mustbe taken for granted th
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