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THE STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FACTS 



Chinese, etc. (3) The American variety. (4) 

 The fourth variety is called by Blumenbach tin* 

 Malay, and described as of a tawny color; the 

 hair black, soft, thick, and curled; the forehead 

 a little projecting. This variety comprehends 

 the islanders of the Pacific Ocean, (o) The re- 

 maining variety is the \<yro. Its characters 

 are: color, black; hair, black and woolly; head, 

 narrow; forehead convex and arched; cheek- 

 bones projecting; nose large, and almost con- 

 founded with the upper jaw; the upper front 

 teeth obliquely placed; the lips thick; the chin 

 drawn in; the legs crooked. This race is found 

 in Western and Southern Africa, and the great 

 islands of the Pacific, generally in the interior. 

 There are very irreat differences in the tribes 

 included in this variety; as witness, the Negro, 

 with the complexion of jet, and woolly hair; 

 the Kaffre, with a copper complexion and long 

 hair; the sooty Papuan, or New Guinea-man; 

 the native of Van Diemen's Land; and the 

 Hottentot. The structure of man is essentially 

 the same in kind as that of other mammals, 

 differing only or mainly in degree; yet the de- 

 grees of difference separate him widely from all 

 other animals, and place him in an order by 

 himself, and far above all other organized beings. 

 He is the only animal to which the erect posture 

 is natural; his whole organization is adapted 

 to that attitude. His brain is the largest in the 



animal kingdom, excepting that only of the 

 elephant and of the whale, and in its organi/.a- 

 tion is far superior to that of any other animal. 

 His face is a model of beauty, and endowed with 

 a wonderful power of expression. The hand of 

 man is .superior in its structure and h\ its func- 

 tions to the corresponding member of any other 

 animal. Man alone truly speaks a lan^uaiie. 

 Kven physically considered, he is the hiiihe.xt 

 po.oible expression of a vcrtibrate. Hut man 

 is the highest representative of the animal king- 

 dom, not only on account of his superior form 

 and higher physical organization, but. above all, 

 on account of those 1 high mental and spiritual 

 endowments which belong to him alone, and 

 which enable him to understand and appreciate 

 the wonderful and sublime harmonies of the 

 material ami moral world, and his own relations 

 to the Author of nature anil of revelation. 

 While each species of the lower animals is 

 limited to a given region or country, and in 

 many cases cannot survive a removal, man's 

 home is the whole earth he alone is truly 

 cosmopolite. It is not possible to fix the date 

 of man's appearance upon the surface of the 

 globe, or even to approximate to it, but the re- 

 searches of modern geologists show that then- 

 is apparent evidence of his existence far be- 

 yond that which is assigned by our popular 

 chronology. 



RACES OF MANKIND 



Arranged by Ethnologist Fignier and others. 



European 

 Branch. 



Aramean 

 Branch. 



Hyperborean 

 Branch. 



Mongolian 

 Branch. 



Sinaic 

 Branch. 



Teutonic Family, , 

 Latin Family, . , 

 Slavonian Family, 



Greek Family, . 

 Libyan Family, 

 Semitic Family, . 

 Persian Family, , 

 Georgian Family, , 

 Circassian Family, 



Hindo 



Branch. 



Ethopian 



Branch. 



Malay 

 Branch. 



Southern 

 Branch. 



Northern 

 Branch. 



Western 

 Branch. 



Eastern 

 Branch. 



Lapp Family, . . . 



Mongol Family, . . . 



Tunguse Family, . . 



Turk Family 



. Yakut Family, . . . 

 ( Chinese Family, . . 

 < Japanese Family, . . 

 ( Indo-Chinese Family, 



5 Hindo Family, . . . 



? Malabar Family, . . 



j Abyssinian Family, . 



/ Fellan Family, . . . 



( Malay Family, . . . 



< Polynesian Family, . 

 ( Micronesian Family, 



( Andian Family, . . 

 < Pampean Family, . . 

 ( Guarani Family, . . 

 ( Southern Family, . . 

 < Northeastern Family, 

 ( Northwestern Family, 



( Kaffre Family, . . 

 ] Hottentot Family, 

 ( Negro Family, . . 

 5 Papuan Family, . 

 ( Andaman Family, 



WHITE RACE 



Scandinavians, Germans, Enplish. 



French, Spaniards, Italians, Moldo-Wallachians. 



Russians, Finns, Bulgarians, Servians, Magyars, Croats, Tchecks, Poles, 



Lithuanians. 

 Greeks, Albanians. 

 Egyptians, Berbers. 

 Arabs, Jews, Syrians. 



Persians, Afghans, Kurds, Armenians, Ossetines. 

 Georgians. 

 Circassians, Mingrelians. 



TELLOW RACE 



Samoiede, Kamtsehadale, Esquimau, Tenissian, Jukaghirite, and 



Koriak Families. 



Mongols, Kalmucks, Buriats. 



Tunguses, Manchus. 



Turcomans, Kirghis, Nogays, Osmanlis. 



Yakuts. 



Chinese. 



Japanese. 



Burmese, Siamese. 



BROWN RACE 



Sikhs, Jats, Rajpoots, Mahrattas, Bengalese, Cingalese. 



Malabars, Tamals, Telincaa. 



Abyssinians, Berabras, Gallas. 



Fellans. 



Malays, Javanese, Battas, Bougis, Maccassars, Dyaks, Toga Is. 



Maoris, Tongas, Tahitians, Pomotouans, Marquesans, Sandwichians. 



Ladrone, Caroline, and Mulgrave Islanders. 



RED RACE 



Quichuas (or Incas), Antis, Andians, Araucanians. 



Patajronians, Puelches, Charruas, Tobas, Moxas, Abipous, etc. 



Guaranis, Bocotudos. 



Aztecs, Mayas, Lencas, Othomis, Tarascas. etc. 



Cherokees, Hurons, Iroquois, Sioux, Apaches, Comanches, Creeks, etc. 



Chinooks, Digger Indians, Nootkans, etc. 



BLACK RACE 



Fijians, New Caledonians, etc. 

 Andamans, Australians. 



