33 The Realm of Nature CHAP. 



may be easily recognised, but the transition between them 

 is so gradual that it is almost impossible to draw the divid- 

 ing line. Students of Ethnology form classes of mankind 

 partly by taking account of physical resemblance and 

 difference, partly by considering the nature of the languages 

 spoken. Following Professor Keane, we may group man- 

 kind around three main centres, corresponding respectively 

 to the Black, Yellow, and White types of humanity. The 

 table expresses some of the larger groups, with a selection 

 of illustrative races : 



BLACK YELLOW WHITE 



WFSTFRN / Ne g ro MONGOL- / Kalmuck 



N \Bantu TATAR \ Kirghiz 



NEGRITO TIBETO-CHINESE 



EASTERN -f? a P uan ,.._ FINNO- f? skimo 



Kelt 

 Teuton 

 Slav 

 Hindu 



Arab 



/Malay TT AA/rrrTr f Berber 

 LN \Maori HAMITIC \Somali 



MALAYO- 



POLYNESIAN 

 AMERICAN CAUCASIC 



423. Black Type. This represents the least civilised 

 peoples, and around it is grouped about one-seventh of the 

 World's population. As the name implies, the complexion 

 is black or dark brown. The hair, also black, is woolly 

 or frizzled, and each hair has an extremely characteristic 

 form, resembling a minute flat ribbon. Most of the people 

 of the Black type are tall and powerful, often with well- 

 formed bodies, but with wide flat noses, thick lips, and 

 projecting jaws. They are sensual and unintellectual ; 

 like children they are usually happy, light-hearted, and 

 careless, but are subject to moods of depression and out- 

 bursts of appalling cruelty. They inhabit the tropics 

 exclusively, except when removed as slaves to warm tem- 

 perate regions. As a rule, in their own lands they go nearly 

 unclothed, living by hunting or by cattle-rearing, and, in 

 rare cases, following a primitive agriculture. The religion 

 professed is usually a low form of Nature-worship, character- 

 ised by fetishism and the practice of witchcraft. Moham- 



