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Read before the Société Médicale du Pantheon, 14 March, 1860, apropos of a discussion upon the different races of mankind, occasioned by "the remarkable work" of M. Hipp. Lamarche, La Politique et les Religions, Etudes d'un Journaliste (Paris, 1859), one of the chief arguments of which is summed up by the author in these terms: "I believe with our great masters in the unity of the human species, in the superiority of the Caucasian race, shown by continual progress, and in the possible amelioration of races less thoroughly distributed by intermixture with our own."