WHITE OR ARABIAN RACE. 



Arabians. 



" While acknowledging that we are only beginning to be acquainted with the countries and peopie of the 

 East, I have been impressed with one view of the circumstances, in correspondence apparently with an 

 ancient condition of the human family. In the course of my recent tour, I was continually hearing from 

 the lips of Orientals the words of different ancient and modern European languages, until at last the whole 

 class of these languages seemed as if merely recomposed from fragments of Arabic and Sanscrit. Of 

 fragments indeed, which have been disguised more or less by interchanges during some thousands of years; 

 and if any European words can be traced to a different source, they at least remain to be pointed out. 



" The same state of things appears to exist in the Malay class of languages, and instances have been 

 discovered of English words which can be traced through the Sanscrit to the remotest islands of the Pacific. 

 The rule may, perhaps, be further extended to the languages of the African continent ; but whether appli- 

 cable in any degree to the Chinese, or to the aboriginal American languages I am uninformed. 



"At the present day the White Race may be conveniently disposed in two divisions, as well geographi- 

 cal, as differing in institutions and habits of life ; the Frank or European, and the Oriental. The extra- 

 ordinary intensity of heat, in some of the countries inhabited by the White race, may help to explain a 

 portion of these differences. 



" One of the above divisions may in some measure be said to rule the land as the other rules the sea ; 

 for the extent of the caravan routes is almost equivalent to the universal maritime intercourse now attained 

 by Europeans." — Dr. Pickering. 



In the foregoing account of the races of men, it will be observed that I have quoted nearly the whole 

 from Dr. Pickering's work on that subject. This I have done, not because there were not abundance of 

 other writers on the subject, at the disposal of a compiler, but because I consider him the final authority. 

 He is the most recent and exact of all writers on the races, and his system is founded on actual observation. 



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