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ure, more or less erect but with a slouching gait, black-faced and 

 whiskered, with prominent prognathous muzzle, and large, prominent 

 canine teeth," whose " forehead was, no doubt, low and retreating, 

 with bony bosses underlying shaggy eyebrows, which gave him a 

 fierce expression, something like that of a gorilla " ; and that such a 

 creature existed in far-off prehistoric times Mr. Allen considers " an 

 inevitable corollary from the general principles of evolution."* We 

 may have some notion of what such a rough-cast of humanity would 

 look like from the ideal representation of the Neanderthal man which 

 forms the frontispiece to Mr. J. P. McLean's "Manual of the An- 

 tiquity of Man." But, whatever may have been the character of the 

 early type, or however the subsequent divergence from it may have 

 arisen, it is sufficiently established that, between the third and second 

 millennium before the Christian era, the several races — black, brown, 

 yellow, and white — had assumed the distinguishing marks by which 

 they are still known. And, no sooner do we meet with evidence of 

 racial diversity, than we begin to discover indications of race inter- 

 mixture. The ancient Egyptians, who furnish us with such interest- 

 ing examples of the human varieties of their time, were themselves a 

 people of mixed blood. Nor in that respect were they singular. If, 

 starting from that meeting-place of nations and tongues, the Nile 

 Delta, we traverse the adjacent continents to their utmost limits, 

 everywhere on the route, from Aino-peopled Japan to the Pillars of 

 Hercules, we shall be confronted by the testimonies of interfusion of 

 blood. Even races that seem most homogeneous, like the Chinese, or 

 that have taken pride in avoiding the taint of alien mixture, like the 

 Aryan Hindoos, or, like the Israelites, deemed themselves interdicted 

 by the Divine command from intercourse with foreigners, have been 

 proved beyond a doubt to be of composite origin. To deal separately 

 with those various families of mankind as the dawn of history dis- 

 closes them to us, or as the centuries of its short range have left them, 

 would take up much time. The general result is, however, well set 

 forth in a passage which I may be permitted to quote from "The Hu- 

 man Species" of M. de Quatrefages. "In China, and especially in 

 Japan," says that distinguished ethnologist, "the white allophylian 

 blood is mixed with the yellow blood in different proportions ; the 

 white Semitic blood has penetrated into the heart of Africa ; the 

 negro and Houzouana types have mutually penetrated each other and 

 produced all the Caffre populations situated west of the Zooloos of 

 Arabian origin ; the Malay races are the result of the amalgamation, 

 in different proportions, of whites, yellows, and blacks ; the Malays 

 proper, far from constituting a species, as polygenists consider them, 

 are only one population, in which, under the influence of Islamism, 

 these various elements have been more completely fused. I have 



* " Who was Primitive Man ? " in " The Fortnightly Review," and " The Topular Sci- 

 ence Monthly," November, 1882. 

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