E-text prepared by Fritz Ohrenschall, Sarah Thomson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | | Text transliterated from Greek is enclosed by tilde | | characters (~transliterated Greek~). | | | | Text that was in small capitals has been converted to | | all upper case. | | | | The oe ligature has been removed from words such as | | Boeotia and foetus. | | | | A list of corrections is at the end of this e-book. | +---------------------------------------------------------+ THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY OF RACES. With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History Of Mankind. From the French of COUNT A. DE GOBINEAU: With an Analytical Introduction and Copious Historical Notes. By H. Hotz. To Which Is Added an Appendix Containing a Summary of the Latest Scientific Facts Bearing upon the Question of Unity or Plurality of Species. By J. C. Nott, M. D., of Mobile. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1856. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by J. B. Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. TO THE STATESMEN OF AMERICA, THIS WORK, THE FIRST ON THE RACES OF MEN CONTEMPLATED FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE STATESMAN AND HISTORIAN RATHER THAN THE NATURALIST, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. EDITOR'S PREFACE.