That sounds rather magniloquent. Let me give you a simple example.
Suppose you had come into Britain with Brute, the grandson of AEneas,
at that remote epoch when (as all archaeologists know who have duly
read Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Arthuric legends) Britain was
inhabited only by a few giants. Now if you had met giants with one
head, and also giants with seven heads, and no others, you would have
had a right to say, "There are two breeds of giants here, one-headed
and seven-headed." But if you had found, as Jack the Giant-Killer
(who belongs to the same old cycle of myths) appears to have found,
two-headed giants also, and three-headed, and giants, indeed, with
any reasonable number of heads, would you not have been justified in
saying, "They are all of the same breed, after all; only some are
more capitate, or heady, than others!"
I hope that you agree to that reasoning; for by it I think we arrive
most surely at a belief in the unity of the human race, and that the
Negro is actually a man and a brother.
If the only two types of men in the world were an extreme white type,
like the Norwegians, and an extreme black type, like the Negros, then
there would be fair ground for saying, "These two types have been
always distinct; they are different races, who have no common
origin.
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