400 LANGUAGE AND EACE. 



strai gilt-haired people, with the Mongols, is due to ignorance 

 of facts." 



I shall to-night adopt what appears to me the most satis- 

 factory provisional grouping (see Table II.). It will be seen 

 from the table that in most of the tests the White group is 

 intermediate between the other two, but that in cubic capa- 

 city of skull it exceeds them. 



As to the types of language employed by the different 

 race-groups, the Yellow races use both isolating and agglu- 

 tinate forms : the American branches being marked out 

 clearly by the polysynthetic character of their tongues. 



The White races use mainly highly inflected languages of 

 two marked types — Semitic and Ar3'an ; while the tongues 

 of the Hamitic branch of the Mediterranean group, which 

 in many respects is allied by physical characters to the more 

 southerly African races, have marked affinities Avith the in- 

 corporative branch of Agglutinate speech, and also with the 

 Semitic branch of inflectional speech. "With regard to the 

 racial characters of these north African so-called Hamitic 

 tribes, it has been well remarked by Miizinger, Hartmann, 

 and others, that on close observation the candid traveller no 

 longer knows where the true negro begins, and his belief in 

 the absolute distinction of race diminishes more and more. 



As to the languages of the Black races there is also great 

 variation in type ; the Australian and Papuan are mainly 

 agglutinate ; the Dravida tongues are of agglutinate type, 

 but at the same time greatly inflected ; while the Bantu 

 negroes and the Hottentots, or Koi-Koin, speak tongues of a 

 peculiar inflectional character. 



Thus we see that the type of language used is not alto- 

 gether a reliable guide in the determination of racial affinity. 

 Hace and language, even as regards their broad divisions, do 

 not run parallel. 



