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characters, usages, religion, speech, cultural features, history, and 

 geographical range. 



Such, broadly speaking, are the elements of classification, and 

 wherever two or more groups are found agreeing in all, or at least 

 in the more essential, of such elements, they may be regarded as 

 branches of one stock. So far, and no further, is a strictly 

 zoological or genetic classification possible in the present state of 

 the multifarious inhabitants of the globe. 



