The Confusion of Tongues

The human race is an organic unity by virtue of its stemming from parents -- Adam and Eve -- common to all its members. However, in this unity is contained the germinal multiplicity of powers and talents, a diversity of gifts. Now it requires this whole earth, all its variations in climate and contour to bring to manifestation that humanity is thus endowed. The cliff dwellers differ from the sea-faring folk; the mountaineers from the dwellers in the plain; the Eskimo from the Kaffer....