[82] There exist at present in northern Africa, down to the Sahara, a fair-haired race of men, who have been held to be the descendants of the Vandals. It is certain that no white race has been established in these parts since the time of Genserich, that is to say, some fourteen centuries. If so, there would result from it that a sojourn of fourteen centuries upon the African soil was not sufficient to darken the hair of the white race. But Dumoulin, taking the text of Procopius for his guide, had already demonstrated that the light-haired race of northern Africa had nothing in common with the Vandals; and I have recently found a passage in the _Périple de la Méditerranée de Syclax_, a work anterior to Alexander the Great, in which mention is made of a tribe of _light-haired_ Lybians, who occupied the littoral of the Minor Syrtis, not far from Mount Auress, where to this day one of the principal tribes of light-haired Kabyles resides. (See _Bulletins de la Soc. d’Anthropologie, séance du 16 Février, 1860_.) [83] [Compare on this subject Professor R. Owen on _The Power of God as manifested in his Animal Creation_, 12mo, London, 1863, in which the relations of science to theology are excellently stated.--EDITOR.] [84] J. Pye Smith, _Relations between the Holy Scriptures and Geology_, third edition, pp. 398-400. This passage is textually reproduced by Morton in a letter to the Rev. John Bachmann, on Hybridity, Charleston, 1850, in 8-15. Carpenter, art. “Varieties of Mankind,” in Todd’s _Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology_, vol. iv, p. 1317, London, 1852. Eusèbe de Salles, _Histoire générale des Races Humaines_, p. 328, Paris, 1849. [85] P. Sagot, _Opinion générale sur l’Origine de la Nature des Races Humaines; Conciliation des Diversités indélibles avec l’Unité Historique du Genre Humain_, Paris, 1860. [86] [Germs of the polygenist doctrine are, however, as old as Empedocles. See Julius Schvarcz, _Geological Theories of the Greeks_, 4to, London, 1862, for the most philosophical account of these early attempts.--EDITOR.]