The unity of the human races proved to be the doctrine of Scripture reason and science : with a review of the present position and theory of Professor Agassiz . No. 5.—Base of Human skull. No. 6.—Base of skull of Ourang. It has been observed by Professor Owen, that in someskulls of negroes, and in one of an Australian savage, he foundthe sphenoid bone not impinging on the parietal at its lower ANTHROPOLOGY. 15 anterior angle, as it does in the skulls of Europeans ; and that,in this respect, they agreed with the skull of the chimpanzee,but not of the ourang. This trifling variation does not aff
The unity of the human races proved to be the doctrine of Scripture reason and science : with a review of the present position and theory of Professor Agassiz . No. 5.—Base of Human skull. No. 6.—Base of skull of Ourang. It has been observed by Professor Owen, that in someskulls of negroes, and in one of an Australian savage, he foundthe sphenoid bone not impinging on the parietal at its lower ANTHROPOLOGY. 15 anterior angle, as it does in the skulls of Europeans ; and that,in this respect, they agreed with the skull of the chimpanzee,but not of the ourang. This trifling variation does not affecteither the form or volume of the cranium; and, besides, it isnot a constant character in the negro, nor even in the chim-panzee. The great density of the negros skull has been noticed byPaau, Scemmerring, and other naturalists; but it is not pecu-liar to the negro race: in most savage nations the skull isthicker and harder than among civilized races. The ancientEgyptians also were remarkable for the density of the thickness of the skull of the negro indicates neither in-tellectual inferiority nor structural approximation to the ourango
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