Excerpt from The Origin and Purpose of African Colonization: Being the Annual Discourse Delivered at the Sixty-Sixth Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, Held in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., Sunday, January 14, 1883 Among the conclusions to which study and research are conduct ing philosophers, none is clearer than this - that each of the races of mankind has a specific character and a specific work. The science of Sociology is the science of race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.