bORGOT (FOR THE BEE, JUNE 12 1793.

COME, in my rapid manner of suggestion, to make some observations on the striking diversities that have been thought to exist among the inhabitants of the earth, and to denote, the diversity of their origin.ilt or

It is not my purpose to enter into any dis-, quisitions of an antiquarian, nature, or that. might lead to cavil or doubtful disputation; but in the spirit, and with the sentiment of the excellent Prospectus of this literary miscellany," to consider the world at large, as the proper theatre for literary improvements, and the whole human race, as constituting but one great society, whose general advancement in knowledge must tend to augment the prosperity of all its parts, and to break down those little distinctions which accident has produced to set nations at variance; and which ignorance has laid hold of, to disunite, and to render hostile to each other, such a large proportion of the hu

man race.

MEN

It is certain, that the very great alterations which have happened during an unknown lapse of ages, on the surface of this planet, have separated or dispersed its inhabitants, and cut them by the interposition of seas in and deserts, from being connected with their remote fellow creatures, or being acquainted with their common origin."

In society at large, as in the individual of mankind, there is a state of infancy which precludes the remembrance of those things which happened during its imbecility and imperfection.

Families and nations thus scattered, lose all remembrance of their fraternal connection, the epithet of a stranger and an enemy become synonimous, and it is high civilization alone, that, by the

ces, and commercion of the arts, the scien

restores the elective attraction of man to man, and teaches him, that to be benevolent, and social, and peaceable, is to be happy.

But if in a family, or among the nations, it shall be discovered that they spring from one stock and origin, and if endearing proofs shall be brought to flash upon the tender and melancholy recollection, of primeval pleasures and habitations, the repulsive and unassociating principles of estrangement will be converted into a vigorous and extraordinary principle of union and participation of benefits.

In the decline of a charming summer day, while these sublime meditations occupied my.

mind at Trimontium, I was sitting on a b not far distant from my peaceful flock, separated from their pasture only by the railing of my exotic walks

os, and the laurel of Italy. th The odour of the magnolia mixed its persume with that of the with that of the sweet briar and the honeysuckle; and the trees, and the shrubs, and the flowers of both hemispheres were intermixed, and equally flourishing together.

The sun had gone down in glory, and I.saw his sub-horizontal rays gilding the last points of the fading landscape.

The mellow woodlark piped his chearful notes, and softened the croaking of the young thrushes, straining their little throats to imitate the music of their fathers.

Our new guests, the redstart and the bullfinch, repeated their fresh tidings, tha they had come to a new land of cultivation, and that the progeny of heaven was but of one: family and one sentiment, harmony and love.. A magnificent and pleasing melancholy took possession of my soul

Ah said I, is it possible, that when vegetables from the four winds of heaven can be

brought to associate together, and to fl flourish,, * beiqnooo noitstibildua sad slide

man should be incapable of assimilation, andu should estrange himself from the communiond of nature! bhow sili lo

Mankind certainly has had a commonorigino Where to look for his cradle we know not, but slet us trace some of his infantine! habits or institutions, that they may enable us to recognises our brethren, and give them adfratemiabembrace. Qu

The use of the right hand is universal The greatest anatomist in Scotland, if not in Europe, with his father, once thought with the ancients, and with Fallopius in particular, that there were slight appearances of a natuši ral cause for this habit in the heart and in the spine, but upon more mature deliberation they affirmed that they had not found any good. reason to assert this opinionios J Jon ti 19 to Sir John Pringles had some notion that cate tleando horses were disposed to begin their movements with the right foot, but upon further enquirye he was undeceived. Todto

MaJohn Hunter, the prince of comparative anatomists, had never attended much to that part of the animal economy (although he hadoften thought of it,) till he was called upon to inquire; and the did it with that promptitude. and accuracy which has appeared in all his philosophical and experimental transactions. He conversed with Sir Joseph Banks and Mr Solander upon the subject, and they informed him, that in the South Seas, wherever they

had been, the right hand was universally used, by institution of the parents, as in other parts of the world.

Mr Hunter made it his business, upon this occasion, to inquire of the show-people at London, and at the Menagerie in the Tower, but none of the keepers had ever observed any disposition in any of the animals under their care, to advance or use a particular limb in walking or in actions

Mr Hunter never could observe any natural cause in the construction of the human body for this preference; and was of opinion, that it was an object of inquiry rather for the moral, than the natural philosopher.

That this habit or custom is perpetuated every whereby education is certain; and were it not, it could not possibly remain; because children being carried in the left arm of the mother or nurse, the right arm is confined, and would be of course supplanted by the other; and it is a fact well ascertained, that in hospitals and other places, where this matter is not attended to, the children as commonly have the one hand useful as the other, according as they have been inclined by accident. 3bIt would seem therefore that this custom has been derived from the primæval stock of the human species, and goes far to prove a common origin.tooed ze

Let this consideration converge with others, to draw us into fraternal union with the hu

man race.