332 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 
boreans of north-eastern Asia, and the Esquimaux of the 
extreme north of America, must probably be regarded as an 
offshoot of this branch, which became peculiarly degene- 
rated by unfavourable conditions of existence. The 
principal portion of the Mongolian immigrants, however, 
migrated to the south, and gradually spread over the whole 
of America, first over the north, later over South America. 
The third and most important main branch of primeval 
Malays, the curly-haired races, or Euplocomi, have probably 
left in the Dravidas of Hindostan and Ceylon, that species 
of man which differs least from the common primary form 
of the Euplocomi. The principal portion of the latter, 
namely, the Mediterranean species, migrated from their 
primeval home (Hindostan ?) westwards, and peopled the 
shores of the Mediterranean, south-western Asia, north 
Africa, and Europe. The Nubians, in the north-east of 
Africa, must perhaps be regarded as an offshoot of the 
primeval Semitic tribes, who migrated far across central 
Africa almost to the western shores. The various 
branches of the Indo-Germanic race have deviated furthest 
from the common primary form of ape-like men. During 
classic antiquity and the middle ages, the Romanic branch 
(the Grzco-Italo-Keltic group), one of the two main 
branches of the Indo-Germanie species, outstripped all other 
branches in the career of civilization, but at present the 
same position is occupied by the Germanic. Its chief repre- 
sentatives are the English and Germans, who are in the 
present age laying the foundation for a new period of higher 
mental development, in the recognition and completion of the 
theory of descent. The recognition of the theory of develop- 
ment and the monistic philosophy based upon it, forms the 
best criterion for the degree of man’s mental development. 
