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too low an estimate of their condition
that there is no human race so degraded
or so ignorant or so utterly savage
as not to present various features of
some little interest. There may yet be
traced in all the races of the earth a certain
^there are more similarities than unsimilarities
[words crossed out] ^ assimilations some kindred
feelings & desires, intellectual & other
faculties together with defects and
inherent evil propensities which prove
that they are kindred partaking
of one flesh & blood & possessed of a
soul however deeply buried in ignorance
akin to our own.
My next [words crossed out] request is this to bear with
me & if my own name & efforts or
personal experience should seem to
be too much mixed up with the statements
[words crossed out] I shall [words crossed out] make
you. For [words crossedout] it is from my