166 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



notwithstanding these nations train their powers more 

 to active exertions of body than to heavy manual toil ; 

 for, if the trial were made with women, it may be 

 expected, that in most cases, Europeans would be in- 

 ferior to savages, excepting those who are particularly 

 destitute of food ; or, if it were made between popula- 

 tions of the bearded race, such, for example, as French 

 Canadian boatmen and English labourers, there is no 

 doubt, that the last mentioned would as greatly surpass 

 the first, in the toil of agricultural labour, as they 

 would be outdone by them in the lasting exertions of 

 poleing ; that is, pushing boats up the current of rapid 

 streams by the help of poles. 



INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CHARACTERS 

 OF THE TYPICAL STOCKS. 



CONFINING the number to three, because they alon# 

 are possessed of the extremes of difference in struc- 

 ture and colour, and because they have received,' as 

 before stated, centres of existence, where the others 

 cannot predominate, we shall find proceeding from them 

 sub-typical stems, always interposed at the geographi- 

 cal points of contact between the two nearest types; 

 and, further on, third and fourth branches, or races and 

 nations, consisting of more divergent forms, which have 

 combined the characters of all the three in greater or 

 less proportions,* while, over the whole, are spread 



* The ancients, in several of the trinal combinations 

 which play in their doctrines, seem to have an allusion, 



