THE HUMAN SPECIES. 271 



These characteristics of the Hyperborean type re- 

 tain such uniformity, that the American races are in 

 most particulars, as we have already shown, but little 

 aberrant, and the Malay, Indo-Chinese, &c., continue 

 to bear them, in the exact proportion of their commix- 

 ture with other aberrants, and of the influences gene- 

 rated by local circumstances. In the same ratio we 

 also find the physical structure to harmonize with the 

 intellectual qualities. The Hyperborean evinces a 

 feebler innervation than the other typical forms of 

 Man ; he is less under amatory influences, less prolific, 

 less enduring in toil ; hence more disposed to severity 

 where he has power ; to a victim or a captive inflicting 

 needless torture, less from natural ferocity, than from 

 the want of individual self-reliance, which is thus 

 prone to express fear by precaution. More readily 

 reduced to order when subdued, he evades rather than 

 resists oppression by force ; he is more obstinate than 

 brave, but savage to self-destruction when roused by 

 despair ; avoiding personal exertion, such as to walk 

 or to dig unremittingly in the fields, he rides in every 

 region when the horse is accessible : more imitative 

 than inventive, he exerts his ingenuity to apply me- 

 chanical aids in necessary labours. Sitting at work, 

 he is dexterous, but little tasteful : at handicraft pro- 

 fessions, preferring patient elaboration to exertion; 

 lazy, yet gluttonous, omnivorous with scarcely any 

 distinction; filthy, amounting to a dread of water; 

 crafty, dishonest, plausible : in war he trusts to his 

 horse, or to numbers; he finds sudden irruption, 



