[126] Acts, xvii. 26.
[127] Legend on the coat-of-arms beneath the portrait in Stoever’s Life of Linnæus, (London, 1794,)—said to have originated with an eminent scientific friend of the great naturalist.—Preface, pp. xi-xii.
[128] Richard the Second, Act I. Scene 3.
[129] Nott and Gliddon, Types of Mankind, p. 169.
[130] The Races of Man, p. 306.
[131] Dissertation sur les Variétés Naturelles qui caractérisent la Physionomie des Hommes, tr. Jansen, (Paris, 1792,) Ch. III.
[132] For a notice of the principal writers and theories on the subject of Races, including those mentioned in the text, see the article on Ethnology, by Dr. Kneeland, in the “New American Cyclopædia,” (1st edit.,) Vol. VII. pp. 306-11.
[133] In reference to the theory of many Homers instead of one, the German Voss used to say, “It would be a greater miracle, had there been many Homers, than it is that there was one.”
[134] Egypt’s Place in Universal History, (London, 1860,) Vol. IV. p. 480.
[135] Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, (London, 1838,) pp. 34, seqq.