GENESIS OF MAN, INTELLECTUALLY 



by all races of men. Of the numerous races 

 historically known to us, it has been manifested 

 in a marked degree only by two — the Aryan 

 and Semitic. To a much less conspicuous ex- 

 tent it has been exhibited by the Chinese and 

 Japanese, the Copts of Egypt, and a few of the 

 highest American races. On the other hand, 

 the small-brained races — the Australians and 

 Papuans, the Hottentots, and the majority of 

 tribes constituting the widespread Malay and 

 American families — r appear almost wholly in- 

 capable of progress, even under the guidance 

 of higher races. The most that can be said for 

 them is, that they are somewhat more imitative 

 and somewhat more teachable than any brute 

 animals. In the presence of the Aryan, even 

 under the most favourable circumstances, they 

 tend to become extinguished, rather than to ap- 

 propriate the results of a civilization which there 

 is no reason to suppose they could ever have 

 originated. The two great races of Middle 

 Africa — the Negroes and the Kaffirs ^ — have 

 shown, by their ability to endure slave labour, 

 their superiority to those above mentioned ; 

 but their career, where it has not been inter- 

 fered with by white men, has been but little 

 less monotonous than the career of a brute spe- 



^ It is Haeckel who asserts a distinction of race between 

 the Negroes and Kaffirs. It is not necessary, however, to 

 insist upon the distinction. 



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