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Physical Perfection

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
October
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

x nere aro now many indications that that in ihe progress ot intellectual culture, ana of the various physical comforts and luxuries of civilized and refinod life, th birbarian form and aspect will disoppear, vvith the barbarían character. As mankind, in all its different aspects, originated in one comrnon eradle, it is by no nieans improbable that all these repugnant diversitics of aspect may eventually vanish aw.iy, and all mankind again become bien Jed into one homogeneous family. Inimagination visitthistribe of negroea, inthcheart of of África. They are as naked, tmeuhivated, and almost as unintelligent as the beasts which roam through their forests. Now with uneartlily wailingsthey pluck out their hair, as they shriek over the nowly oponed grave ; and now bursts of hideous revelry resound from their mud hovels, as they colebratO the horrid orgics of heathenism. Thoy are wild and savage men, their soulsstimulated only.by the fi res of passion. - War isboth their pastime and their tor cor.But the Christian missionary visits that degraded tribe. The church and the school-house are created. The viciom are reclalmed. the naked are clothed. th hungry are fed. the ignorant are instructed, and vulgarity gives place to the re fincments of cultivated life. The soil is cultivated : cheerful dwellings adorn the Christian village, and the beaming smile of intellect dawns in the face. ThO rugged features of the savage are smoothed down into the mild 6c placid expression of the Christian gentleman. The transformatioh ofthe tu'iourd man is even. more manifest than the chango in the ïnicard fecling. The barbarían has bescm indeed a ncw creature, and has taken a long stride towards the physical formation of the most perfect race. And his doscendants of each succeeding eeneration