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the earth : namely, the Aryan, Semitic, and Egyptian. 

 Having described these three families, Pritchard 

 passes to the people who, as he says, radiated in va- 

 rious directions from the regions inhabited by them, 

 and proceeded to occupy the entire globe. 



This mode of classification, as we have pointed out, 

 leaves the beaten track trodden by other natural his- 

 torians. For this reason it has not found favor among 

 modern anthropologists, and this disfavor has reacted 

 upon the work itself, which, notwithstanding, is the 

 most complete and exact of all that we possess 

 upon man. Although it has been adopted by no 

 other author, Pritchard's classification of the hu- 

 man race appears to us to be the most sound in 

 principle. 



The classification of the human race which we 

 propose to follow, modifying it where in our opinion 

 it may appear to be necessary, is due to a Belgian 

 naturalist, M. d'Omalius d'Halloy. It acknowledges 

 five races of men: the white, black, yellow, brown, 

 and red. 



When we examine the form and relative size of 

 the brain in ascending the series of mammiferous 

 animals, we find that this organ increases in volume, 

 and progresses, so to say, toward the superior charac- 

 teristics which it is to display in the human species. 

 The brain increases in importance from the zoophyte 

 to the ape. But, in comparing the brain of the ape 

 with that of man, an important difference becomes at 

 once apparent. The brain of the gorilla, orang- 

 outang, or chimpanzee, which are the apes that bear 

 the greatest resemblance to man, and which for that 



