DEVELOPMENT ETC. OF ORGANIZATION. 103 



phy, the sciences and the arts. The coloured races on the 

 contrary have the senses in greater perfection. 



114. The mongol is recognised by the strength of the 

 trunk, the smallness of the members, the almost square form 

 of the head, and the obliquity of the forehead, by the breadth 

 and flattening of the face, the projection of the cheek bones, 

 and by the separation, narrowness, and obliquity of the eyes; 

 the skin is olive; the hair is straight, black and short; the beard 

 scanty, and sometimes totally wanting. 



115. The negro has the trunk slender, particularly at the 

 loins and pelvis; the superior members are long, particularly 

 the fore-arm; the hands are small, the feet large and flattened; 

 the knee and foot are turned outwards; the head is narrow and 

 elongated; the inferior part of the face projects; the nose is 

 flattened ; the anterior teeth are oblique, and the lips salient ; 

 the skin, the iris and the hair, are black ; the latter is crisped, 

 and the beard thin. 



116. The anatomical characters of the American race are 

 less defined, and seem intermediate between the Caucasian and 

 the negro. The skin is of a copperish red ; the hair is black, 

 straight and fine, and the beard scanty or wanting. 



117. The malay is like the American, but little distin- 

 guished by characters drawn from anatomy, he appears to be 

 between the two first. In this race, the skin is brown or 

 tanned, and the hair thick and curly. 



118. Fabulous varieties have also been admitted: this is 

 no place to speak of them. Albinos originate from a morbid 

 change. In each race we also find sub-varieties more or less 

 marked. In different countries, often nearly approximated, we 

 generally observe a national character, at least, as regards the 

 physiognomy; but in each race also, in each nation, and even 

 in much more limited divisions, we sometimes find individuals 

 very different from others; thus it is by no means very 

 rare, that we find in the negro, all the anatomical and phy- 

 siological characters of the Caucasian race, colour excepted, 

 and vice versa. The varieties, otherwise, are confounded by 

 insensible gradations. We must then consider these varieties 

 in the species, as accidental differences only, the causes of 

 15 



