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of man. There is no corner of the world that they do not 

 ransack for food and raw materials for their manufactures, 

 or in search of markets for their varied wares ; and north, 

 south, east, and west they have seized and peopled vast 

 regions to which originally the white man was a stranger. 

 Thus there are now 120,000,000 of English-speaking people, 

 two-thirds of whom are thousands of miles away from 

 "that little stone set in the silver sea" which is the real 

 home of the Briton. 



The Negro family has its home in Central and South 

 Africa and some portions of Polynesia. A black skin, 

 narrow skull, low forehead, thick lips, and woolly hair are 

 distinctive features that never leave room for doubt con- 

 cerning the negro's identity. There are millions of him 

 in the West Indies and the United States, but he would 

 never have got there of his own initiative ; he was too 

 apathetic, too ignorant, to provide the means of traversing 

 thousands of miles of ocean. He was conveyed there by 

 the dominating, cosmopolitan white man, that he might 

 till the new lands which the Western nations of Europe 

 had seized to themselves in the New World. 



The Mongolian family occupies North, Central, and 

 Eastern Asia. The chief characteristics are a skin of a 

 yellow tinge ; the skull oblong, with a receding forehead ; 

 cheek bones prominent and the nose short and broad ; 

 very closely-set narrow eyes ; and long, straight, black 

 hair. The Chinese, Japanese, and Tartars are the chief 

 members of the family ; but the Eskimos, Lapps, Finns, 

 the Magyars of Hungary, and the Turks are of the same 

 stock. 



The Malays and many of the Polynesians and the Red 

 Indians are not separate types ; they are but varieties of 

 the Yellow race. They possess almost exactly the same 

 distinctive features, except that the Malay has a dark brown 

 tawny skin, while the Indian has a coppery complexion 

 that has earned for him the name of red man. 



It is man who is the dominant force in the world, for 

 whom the Creator provided the wonders of earth and sea 

 and sky, at whose disposal was placed every good thing 

 which the wisdom of God conceived could minister to 



