RACES OF MANKIND 



1667 



had pushed their way to the furthest limits of the 

 lands which were then habitable. And what fol- 

 lows? The inevitable conclusion is, that it must be 

 about as safe to argue from those implements as to 

 the condition of man at that time, in the countries 

 of his primeval home, as it would be in our own day 

 to argue from the habits and arts of the Eskimo as to 

 the state of civilization in London or in Paris. 



RACES OF MANKIND 



WILLIAM HUGHES 



IT is estimated that the earth is inhabited, at the 

 present time, by 1,450 millions of human beings, 

 who are distributed over its surface in the manner 

 shown in the following table: 



Europe is, therefore, relatively to its size, by much 

 the most populous division of the globe, though Asia 

 contains the highest number of inhabitants amount- 

 ing, indeed, to little less than two-thirds of the en- 

 tire human race. The New World is very much less 

 populated by man than the older known portions of 

 the globe, though its capabilities for the support of 

 man fully equal those of any of the continents of the 



