Note 1594 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

The idea in general was not wholly new. Capt. Bernard Romans, in his Concise Nat. Hist. of East and West Florida (N. Y., 1776), had expressed the opinion “that God created an original man and woman in this part of the globe of different species from any in the other parts” (p. 38). Clavigero, in 1780, believed that the distinct linguistic traits of the Americans pointed to something like an independent origin. Cf. W. D. Whitney on the “Bearing of Languages on the Unity of Man,” in North Amer. Review, cv. 214.