THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE 



shall find that the place of abode of each species is 

 very limited. For instance, of the larger apes the 

 orang-outang is found only in Borneo and Sumatra, 

 and the gorilla in a small corner of Western Africa. 

 Had man originated in all those places where now 

 his different races are found, he would stand alone as 

 an exception among organized beings. 



Reasoning then by induction, that is, applying to 

 man all that we observe to obtain generally among 

 beings living on the surface of the globe, we come to 

 the conclusion that the human species, in common 

 with every vegetable or animal species, had but one 

 centre of creation. 



Around the central tableland of Asia are found 

 the three organic and fundamental types of man, that 

 is to say, the white, the yellow, and the black. The 

 black type has been somewhat scattered, although it 

 is still found in the south of Japan, in the Malay 

 Peninsula, in the Andaman Isles, and in the Philip- 

 pines, at Formosa. The yellow type forms a large 

 portion of the actual population of Asia, and it is 

 well known whence came those white hordes that 

 invaded Europe at times prehistoric and in more re- 

 cent ages; those conquerors belonged to the Aryan 

 or Persian race, and they came from Central Asia. 



Around the central tableland of Asia, we find 

 not only the three fundamental types of the human 

 species, but the three types of human speech. Does 

 not this, therefore, afford ground for presumption, 

 if not actual proof, that man first appeared in this 

 very region which Scripture assigns as the birthplace 

 of the human race? 



