730 ORIGIN OF MANKIND. 



other parts of the world. To the second, or Mon- 

 golian family, belong the ancient Scythians, and 

 their descendants, the modern Tartars of central 

 Asia, the Chinese, Japanese, the Indo-Chinese, 

 and the various tribes of northern Asia. To the 

 Malay race belong the natives of Malacca, Bor- 

 neo, Sumatra, Java, New Zealand, the Philippine, 

 and other islands of the South Sea. The fourth 

 class embraces the numerous tribes of America, 

 from the arctic ocean to Cape Horn ; while the 

 black natives of central Africa, New Holland, and 

 New Guinea, belong to the fifth, or Ethiopian 

 race. 



It is maintained by Mr. Lawrence, in his very 

 able and learned work on the Natural History of 

 Man, that " external agencies, whether physical 

 or moral, will not account for the bodily and 

 mental differences which characterize the several 

 tribes of mankind, and that they are the off- 

 spring of natural differences in the breed or race.*' 

 (pp. 300, 387, 442, 486.) M. Quetelet also observes, 

 in his late Treatise on Man, that " different races 

 must be admitted, although the characters on 

 which these distinctions are established have not 

 been sufficiently defined." And he adds, "how 

 can we study the modifications which the ele- 

 ments relative to man, as well as their laws of 

 developement, undergo in the different races, when 

 ice have not settled the point of commencement ?" 



In regard to the first abode of mankind, termed 

 he Garden of Eden, or the terrestrial Paradise 



