Why so.

What else

Prove this.

Explain,

Prove it

to absorb.

The 4th observation.

Are they uniform.

The heat absorbed by the black negro skin, makes the blood flow more readily through the vessels, so as to promote perspiration; and this moisture, in evaporating, carries off heat from the body.

Not only so, but the perspiration on the outside of the skin, obstructs the heat of the sun from entering the system; and therefore, when the blood flows back to the heart, it is much cooler than it would be otherwise.

The beneficial effects of a profuse perspiration on the skin, may be forcibly illustrated by referring to the well-known danger of sleeping in the sun:

If a person goes to sleep in the sun, his skin is dry, and the rays penetrating the system, disturb the bile. Whereas, a labourer working hard, suffers no injury, because his skin is covered with profuse perspiration.

The absorbing power of black is capable of very easy illustration. On a hot summer's day, put a black glove on one hand, and a white one on the other, and expose both to the sun; it will be found that the hand wearing the black glove, will feel the warmer, it is true, but will be moist with perspiration; while the other will be distressed with a dry parching heat.

(4.) The skin is covered with the orifices of extremely minute bags, which excrete an oily matter, to keep it soft and pliant.

These oil-glands are more numerous in some parts of the body than in others: and it is in consequence of this abundant supply of oil, that the arm-pits have an offensive smell, when cleanliness is not rigorously observed.

dant where.

Dark skins, like those of the Negro and MostabunMulatto, are more thickly supplied with these oil-bags than white skins; hence are they more glossy or greasy-looking; and hence also, are they more strong-smelling.

useful.

This provision, however, is most useful and Why so benevolent, as in consequence thereof, the skin is fortified against the pernicious influences of the scorching sun and drying air; and the pores are kept more pliant, to let out both the sensible and insensible perspiration.

End of Part Three.

PART IV.

MAN DISPERSED OVER THE WORLD.

CHAPTER I.

THE BIBLE ACCOUNT OF MAN'S
DISPERSION.

What that

account.

Their de

vice what.

What was

For some time after the flood "the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. When the race had multiplied, they plotted together to build a city, and an immense tower, whose top should reach to heaven."

The objects of this design were twofold: to the object. make themselves a name," and to prevent their being "scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

What else.

What was

the issue.

Probably other inducements had their influence in the work. The tower might be intended to afford them refuge in case of another deluge; or it might have been designed as a temple to the sun for drying up the flood.

Be this as it may, the great motive was the establishment of a universal kingdom: They resolved they would not be scattered; and God at once frustrated their design, confounded

their speech, and scattered them abroad upon the earth.*

the tower.

As for the tower, it was left unfinished, and What of was ever after called the Tower of Babel, or Tower of Confusion. A lasting record of man's presumption and imbecility.

CHAPTER II.

HOW DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

BECAME

ORGANIZED.

be assumed

Assuming the confusion of Babel to be a what may fact, we may conclude that as the world grew older, and the people became more mixed, or further separated from each other, their differences of speech would considerably increase.

tributed.

Local circumstances, a diversity of pursuits, What condifferent habits and governments, caprice, climate, accident, and so on, would introduce words and phrases, changes and modifications, which in many cases would out-number the original stock.

Some colonies, by increasing in civilization, What else. would greatly augment their vocabulary, and adapt their idioms and pronunciation to their convenience or taste.

Others, sinking lower and lower in the scale, Others how. would gradually degrade their original tongue,

Every attempt at forming a universal kingdom from that time to this has, in like manner, been brought to nought. Witness Assyria, Chaldæa, Persia, Macedonia, Rome, and in modern times France. Only one kingdom, that of Christ, is to be universal.

Between these two.

The gap

till little else was left than a few simple sounds and artless words, expressive of physical wants or daily pursuits.

Between these two extremes would come a vast variety of shades, all of which, however, would grow stronger and stronger, as the tribe or city settled into a distinct society.

Here and there, in the process of time, wise how fixed. men would arise, who would bring into methodical shape the language of their own people, and give it fixed rules and arbitrary laws, which in many cases would confirm the diversity, and raise it into a principle.

Last of

Exemplify

Lastly, conquests and invasions would stamp all what. a language with an entirely new character. Thus the Saxon invaders changed our old Celtic language into Anglo-Saxon: and the Normans again metamorphosed it into its present type.

Exemplify

The conclu By these, or some analagous means, the lansion what. guages of the world got multiplied into 2000 distinct tongues, and 5000 dialects or branches. These dia- These dialects are radically the same as the lects what. parent stock, but circumstantially different. Those who are acquainted with Greek will readily understand the nature of this difference by comparing its four dialects with each other. Those who are not so, will understand its nature by comparing the speech of a Yorkshire or Lancashire peasant, with an uneducated Somersetshire or Cornwall rustic.

What can

others do.

What the result.

Two such people might be brought together, and though they both spoke English after their own fashion, be utterly unable to understand each other from their provincial peculiarities.