158 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



character, chiefly observed in the Mongolic races, "being 

 a result of the want of the same acting cause. Not- 

 withstanding the desire of the beardless type to violate 

 its own prohibitory laws, intermarriage with Caucasian 

 women is decidedly more sterile than the union of the 

 bearded and woolly haired sexes. Where human laws 

 prevent intermarriage, nature endeavours to be avenged 

 through the more powerful operation of the passions, 

 by means of interunion with foreign slaves, by abduc- 

 tion, and by child stealing ; whence result a certain 

 restoration of the balance. There are localities in 

 Europe, where the frequent intermarriages of the same 

 families, produce constantly individuals defective in 

 constitution, mind, or limbs. 



Without intermixture of races, the ratiocination of 

 mankind appears inoperative to certain particulars in 

 life. Nomad nations may not wander with their cattle 

 solely from inclination. Necessity is the first cause. 

 But there are tribes, such as we have already named, 

 who are not to be taught by example, or by the advan- 

 tageous results of undertaking certain things that their 

 inclinations reject. The Jews probably never were a 

 truly agricultural people, working with their own hands. 

 The Veneti, Heneti, Gwyniad, or Ventse, were always 

 the real commercial pedlars of antiquity. The Arme- 

 nians are nationally merchants, from London to Bok- 

 hara. Neither were ever warriors ; they traded solely ; 

 and the last mentioned continue to act on the same 

 principle. They lived under the shield of the strongest 

 warlike people that would protect them ; the first, under 



