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phical ; and although it has certain facts favourable to it, the 

 view is now very generally abandoned. 



" Each race seems to have a civilization peculiar to itself; 

 thus the ancient Greek, seemingly now extinct, carried the 

 arts, literature, and even science, or at least philosophy, to a 



Fig. 190 e. The Aboriginal Native of Australia, from Peron. 



point they have never reached since their epoch ; the Coptic 

 race held its own form of civilization, as exhibited in their 

 architecture ; so also the Persian and Mongol. The Western 

 European races are chiefly deficient in imagination and genius. 

 The Negro race has never invented anything. 



" Of all the races of man, the most remarkable is the Saabs, 



