Observations on the climate in different parts of America : compared with the climate in corresponding parts of the other continent : to which are added, remarks on the different complexions of the human race ; with some account of the aborigines of America : being an introductory discourse to the History of North-Carolina / by Hugh Williamson, M.D. LL. D. member of the Holland Society of Sciences, of the Society of Arts and Sciences of Utrecht, of the American Philosophical Society, &c.

  • Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on the climate in different parts of America : compared with the climate in corresponding parts of the other continent : to which are added, remarks on the different complexions of the human race ; with some account of the aborigines of America : being an introductory discourse to the History of North-Carolina / by Hugh Williamson, M.D. LL. D. member of the Holland Society of Sciences, of the Society of Arts and Sciences of Utrecht, of the American Philosophical Society, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    questions which seem to be essentially connected with good morals. A detailed solution of those questions has not been attempted; but they seemed to demand some notice. Modern historians and philosophers are amusing themselves and their rea- ders every day with criticisms upon and objections to the Mosaic history of man. All men are equally bound to understand the foundation of moral ob- ligation. It is equally their duty to know the truth; and they are equally interested in the love and prac- tice of virtue. If men who do not believe in the truth of revelation, may be excused for turning aside to persuade other men to adopt their useless unbelief, surely a writer may be excused for stat- ing some reasons for his belief, whose hopes of sal- vation are rested upon that record. If arguments favourable to virtue, and conducive to human hap- piness, can be deduced from civil or natural history, they are equally the property of every man who travels in those fields, and they may be classed among the most desirable fruits of study. How- ever this may be, the reader will not have reason to complain that the following discourse is burdened with many observations that are not intimately connected with the subject, when we are compar- ing the inhabitants of America with those of the other continent. Some of the positions that have been stated, in opposition to the conjectures or