are paramount in all the improvements of the earth.
Shem, was the name of another of the sons of Noah; which word also had its meaning, and was renown, praise or greatness, prophetically pointing out the character of his race, but doubtless more particularly, the renown of the genealogy of the holy seed, or line of the Patriarchs, Prophets, the Jews, and of Jesus Christ, who came of the line of Shem. On these accounts, the renown of the house of Shem, has been great in all the earth.
The Jews have, in every age, been a wonderful people, who were produced by miracle as in the birth of Isaac, when his parents were too old to have children, and have been preserved by power, equally miraculous, carrying out and maintaining the significations of the word Shem, which was the name of their great progenitor.
In the opinion, that there was, somewhere, in ancient ages, three distinct colors of the human family, we are by no means alone or singular. This was the opinion of the very celebrated philosopher. Dr. Mitchell, late of New-York, which opinion he published, with many curious matters to the world.
But Dr. Mitchell has not told us at what period of time, these complexions had their commencement, whether in the family of the first man, or at some other period — or whether there was created three distinct fathers to the human race, as many men do now believe, and probably was the opinion of Mitchell.
Professor Lawrence, whose volume of Lectures on Physiology we have already quoted, is of this
