RACES OF MANKIND 1669 



check the more rapid numerical growth which it 

 would otherwise exhibit. 



The generally recognized ethnological division of 

 mankind, with reference to race, is into three leading 

 families the Caucasian, Mongolian, and Negro. 

 Two other families the Malay and the American 

 are commonly added to these, making five in the 

 total. The first-named division is that suggested by 

 the illustrious French naturalist, Cuvier. The five- 

 fold division is due to the German philosopher, 

 Blumenbach. In the scheme of the former, the 

 Malay and American are regarded as sub-varieties 

 the one of the Caucasian and the other of the Mon- 

 golian family. Other writers again enumerate a 

 much greater number of varieties of mankind, each 

 possessing characters sufficiently distinct to entitle 

 it to be regarded as a separate family. 



[In using the word race, as applied to different 

 families of man, the division must be understood as 

 implying "variety" only not species. There is no 

 specific difference in the various members of the 

 human family no difference, that is, which implies 

 anything in contradiction to the assumption that all 

 mankind have had a common origin, springing from 

 a single pair. The human family differs in this regard 

 from all the lower members of the animal kingdom. 

 The order "bimana" (i. e., two-handed], to which, 

 in scientific classification, man is referred, comprises 

 only a single genus, and a single species. 



The characteristic points of difference between the 

 great families of mankind above referred to are the 

 color of the skin, eyes, and hair (with the nature of 



