ise, because
such sort of folks have not sense enough to take it with moderation.
This effendi appeared no stranger to the parties that prevail among
us: Nay, he seemed to have some knowledge of our religious disputes,
and even of our writers; and I was surprised to hear him ask, among
other things, how Mr Toland did.

MY paper, large as it is, draws towards an end. That I may not go
beyond its limits, I must leap from religions to tulips, concerning
which you ask me news. Their mixture produces surprising effects.
But, what is to be observed most surprising, are the experiments of
which you speak concerning animals, and which are tried here every
day. The suburbs of Pera, Jophana, and Galata, are collections of
strangers from all countries of the universe. They have so often
intermarried, that this forms several races of people, the oddest
imaginable. There is not one single family of natives that can value
itself on being unmixed. You frequently see a person, whose father
was born a Grecian, the mother an Italian, the grandfather a
Frenchman, the grandmother an Armenian, and their ancestors English,
Muscovites, Asiatics, &c.

THIS mixture produces creatures more extraordinary than you can
imagine; nor could I ever doubt, but there were several different
species of men; since the whites, the woolly and the long-haired
blacks, the small-eyed Tartars and Chinese, the beardless Brasilians,
and (to name no more) the oily-skinned yellow Nova Zemblians, have
as specific differences, under the same general kind, as grey-hounds,
mastiffs, spaniels, bull-dogs, or the race of my little Diana, if
nobody is offended at the comparison. Now, as the various
intermixing of these latter animals causes mongrels, so mankind have
their mongrels too, divided and subdivided into endless sorts. We
have daily proofs of it here, as I told you before. In the same
animal is not seldom remarked the Greek perfidiousness, the Italian
diffidence, the Spanish arrogance, the French loquacity; and, all of
a sudden, he is seized with a fit of English thoughtfulness,
bordering a little upon dulness, which many of us have inherited from
the stupidity of our Saxon progenitors. But the family which charms
me most, is that which proceeds from the fantastical conjunction of a
Dutch male with a Greek female. As these are natures opposite in
extremes, 'tis a pleasure to observe how the differing atoms are
perpetually jarring together in the childr