sians; and hence that peculiarity of walk and motion already noted. But, is not our argument too plain to require additional fortification or detail?

309. THE INDIAN, CAUCASIAN, AND OTHER RACES.

The physiognomical and physical characteristics of the Indian race are also hereditary. Their copper color, high cheekbones, wide mouth, strait black hair, light beard, prominent bones, sunken eyes, para-toed gait, and Indian aspect, well illustrated in the accompanying engraving of the celebrated

Who ever

Blackhawk, while they characterize this race, also descend from father Indian to son Indian, and appear in all their crosses, in proportion to the Indian mixture. saw curly hair on a son of the forest? Or a Caucasian face on red man's shoulders ? Or an Indian body with Malay features? All such diversities this hereditary law under discussion effectually prevents, while it brands the physiology and physiognomy of every race indelibly on its front.

The Caucasian characteristics are so strongly marked as to be easily and universally recognized; of which the accompanying engraving of the Venetian nobleman, Louis Cornaro, furnishes an excellent sample. That these Caucasian characteristics are transmitted is too obvious to require proof, since they pervade all ages and all nations.

Of the Malay and Mongolian races, the same general principles and facts are equally apparent; but as the truth of our subject is liable to no rational doubt, enlargement is unneces

sary.

Not only can any Caucasian, Malay, Indian, Mongolian, and Tartar, be instantly recognized by that uniformity of features and complexion peculiar to each race, but nearly or quite every nation has its national physiognomy so distinctly marked, that every shrewd observer knows an Irishman, a Scotchman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian, a Turk, a Spaniard, and the like, the moment he sees them. This gen. eral fact is too obvious to require comment, and that these respective physiognomies are hereditary, admits no manner of doubt; because a child born in America of Irish or German parents, will resemble the physiognomy of its nation as much as if born in the land of its parents. But probably the most striking and extensive exemplification of this doctrine of the descent from parents to offspring, of physiognomical peculiarities, is to be found in

311. THE JEWISH PHYSIOGNOMY,

Of which the accompanying engraving is an excellent sam ple. Every Jew bears some general resemblance to this na tional stamp of face so close, that his Jewish origin can easily be determined. To dwell on this point is unnecessary. Suffice it to say, that a knowing observer can select every Jew,

however dressed, from among thousands congregated together from among all nations. Of course these likenesses are hereditary; especially since this nation has intermarried within itself from time immemorial.

SECTION III.

FAMILY LIKENESSES, STATURE, ETC., TRANSMITTED.

312. FAMILY LIKENESSES,

ALSO every where abound. Women are shrewd observers, and one of their first observations respecting infants is, that "This child looks like its mother;" "that babe like its father;" "the other infant like its grandmother;" and still another,

"like its uncle, or aunt, or cousin ;" and such is generally the fact. Probably every child, and all human beings, resemble some ancestor or relative in their forms of face or body. If any should object to this doctrine, even he himself will be found to be its living confirmation. So certain and universal is this resemblance, that communities often ascribe the paternity of children whose fathers are not certainly known, to those whom the child resembles in looks and action, which resemsemblance is often too close to leave room to doubt the correctness of the conclusions drawn. Hence the portraits of descendants among those of their ancestors, and the reserblance of the former to one or other of the latter, will be parent.* If one ancestor had red hair, red hair will appear, every now and then, in every succeeding generation, and be more and more prevalent, in proportion to the animal vigor of that ancestor.

THE ROGERS' LIKENESSES.

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Thus John Rogers, the martyr, had red hair, as appears from a painting of him now in Harvard College; and accordingly red or light hair and sandy whiskers will be found to prevail in his descendants in this country to the present day. So powerful was his constitution, that it stamped its own impress upon the great majority of his descendants so strongly, as still to rival those families into which his descendants have married. Compare the number of Rogerses who have more or less admixture of the red in the color of their hair with the community as a whole, and the force of this hereditary fact will be too apparent to be controverted.

So when some conspicuous ancestor had a prominent, or a Roman, or pug nose, or a projecting, or retreating, or double chin, or full or sunken cheeks or eyes, or high, or small, or prominent cheek-bones, or heavy eyebrows, or a high or retreating forehead, or large or small mouth, thick or thin lips, long or short face and neck, large or small ears, more or less

* Preserving the likenesses of our parents and grandparents, and handing our own down to posterity, would greatly facilitate the investigation of this whole subject of hereditary transmission, and is trongly recommended.