...ard, in sustaining a theory contradictory to history as well as to common sense. It is as if the familiar expressions often employed in our own time, such as the people of Africa, or the people of South America , should be cited, by some ingenious theorist of a future generation, as evidence that the subjects of the Khedive and those of the King of Dahomey were but one people, or that the Peruvians and the...