Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . d 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
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . d 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 that every-body has read them. The featureswhich resemble the elephant arecharacteristic of childhood, as inthis and the preceding
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