MAN as he is has not yet been accounted for by philosophers. If they do not possess power of mind equal to the explanation of a fact so common among natural phenomena as the present existence of themselves, the first step towards a correct anthropology has not been taken; and therefore we need not wonder if they stumble on strange theories in their attempts to make us understand how man happened to come into existence at first. It is but vanity and vexation of spirit to discourse about man's mind and body, with the variety of his races and his doings, if men cannot come to a conclusion, from the knowledge of their own qualities as human beings, why they were made, who made them, and what is likely to become of them.