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V HRTEBRATA. 



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CAUCASIAN TYPE. 



longing to the division Vertebrata, the class Mammalia, the order Bimana or JTominidce, genus 

 Homo, and species Sapiens. Blumenbach divides the species into five varieties, whose characters 

 are as follows : 



1. CAUCASIAN VARIETY. 



A white skin, cither with a fair rosy tint, or inclining to brown ; red checks; hair black, or of 

 the various lighter colors, copious, soft, and generally curved or waving. Irides dark in those 

 with brown skin ; light in the fair or rosy complexioned. Large cranium with small face ; the 

 upper and anterior regions of the former particularly developed, and the latter falling perpendicu- 

 larly under them. Face oval and straight, with distinct features; expanded forehead, narrow and 

 rather aquiline nose, and small mouth; front teeth of both jaws perpendicular; lips, particularly 

 the lower, gently turned out ; chin full and rounded. Moral feelings and intellectual powers most 

 energetic, and susceptible of the highest development and culture. 



-Tii" 1 ys an eloquent writer, " differs from all other races: he is humane, he is 



civilized, and progress -. II • conquers with his head as will as with his hand: it is intellect, 

 after all, that conquers— not the strength of a man's arm. The Caucasian has been often master 

 of the ether races— never their Blaves. lb' has carried his religion to other races, but never taken 

 theirs. In history, all religion if Caucasian origin. All the great limited forms of monar- 



chies are Caucasian : republics are Caucasian. All the great sciences are of Caucasian origin : all 

 inventions arc Caucasian : literature and romance come of the same stock. - All the great poets 

 are of Caucasian origin : Mos -. Luther, Jesus Christ, Zoroaster, Buddha, Pythagoras, were Cauca- 

 aii. No other race can bring up to memory such celebrated names as the Caucasian race. The 



