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And again, " We must needs confess that neither the 

 shape of the sknll nor any other portion of the 'skeleton has 

 afforded sufficiently comprehensive distinguishing marks of 

 the human races ; that the colour of the skin likewise dis- 

 plays only various gradations of darkness, and that the hair 

 alone comes to the aid of our systematic attempts, and even 

 this not always, and never with sufficient decisiveness. 

 Who then can presume to talk of the immutability of racial 

 types ? To base a classification of the human race on the 

 character of the hair only, as Haeckel has done, was a 

 hazardous venture, and could but end as all other artificial 

 sj'stems have ended. In the separation of the Hottentots 

 from the Bantu negroes, this s^^stem has led to errors ; and 

 the combination of Australian aborigines, as a so-called 



Table II.— EACE GROUPS. 



