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conil PS I') no mean* invariable 



characteristic!*. Tl lie members of the White race 



are usually tan skinned, we fin* 1 that th. re are grain 

 from a dark skin tint that i> almost black, all the way 

 through the various degrees of hlondness to a yellowish 

 <-.,!. .red skin; while most iiM-mbem of the White race are 

 neither very broad headed nor very longheaded, there are 

 individuals who are as uded as the Negro and >th 



era who are as round i aded as the Chinaman; in hair 

 form, the members of the White race show variations all 

 the way from straight almost lank hair to frizzly or almost 

 kinky hair. Th- White race seems therefore to be more 

 able than either of the other two great divisions of 

 mankind. 



Because the White race seems to be more variabl 

 its traits than either of the other two races. Professor 

 lers that it is the most direct projection 

 of the original nuv, that it is the variable plastic race 

 coming down from earliest paleolithic times. He main- 

 tains that this hypothe < simplest and agrees with 

 more facts than -r theory of race origin. He ac- 

 counts for the origin of the Yellow and Black races upon 

 the hypothesis that one contingent of t) 

 d'-'Tij-t race with a tendency to vary, worked its way 

 into a favorable location, when*, in the course of cen- 

 turi'-s, natural sd.M-tion .! rated to make it markedly 

 hocephnlic. fri/./h . an<l Mark; while another 

 contingent of this original plastic race with a tendency 

 ary, work.-.l its \\ay into a favorable location, and 

 there, in accordance with the same selective process, be- 

 came markedly brachyoephalic, almond-eyed, lank-haired, 

 and yellow in skin color. While this theory does not take 

 inui; iot ice of color gradations such as brown, 



