XXVI. AMERICAN NATIVE RACES OF MEN 



The student of mankind soon notices that there are 

 many kinds of men, just as there are many varieties of 

 dogs, pigeons, or horses. There is a wide gap between 

 the fleet greyhound and the common cur, or between the 

 car horse and the trained trotter ; and so with man, the 

 mental distance between a George Washington and an 

 AustraUan chief is great, though physically they are much 

 the same. 



It is not necessary to travel to learn that there are many 

 races of men. America has become the refuge of the 

 people of the world. In nearly every town or city we see 

 men strikingly different. Black men from Africa, yellow 

 men from China, red men from America, and whites from 

 the great European centers. These constitute certain 

 types of men, and again we could divide them into many 

 races or groups based on physical peculiarities. Thus 

 Huxley gives five types and fourteen secondary ones ; 

 Haeckel gives four types and twelve secondary subdivi- 

 sions, and there are many more representing a vast number 

 of grades and degrees, and the point of extreme interest is 

 to know how these different kinds of men were produced : 

 whether the first men were black, white, yellow, or red ; 

 whether they all came from the same land, or whether they 

 sprang from different places. 



These are questions not solved, but about which volumes 

 have been written ; but this we do know, that climate has 



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