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from hybrids, who, like the true Negro type, possess 

 the perceptive and imaginative faculties in greater 

 proportion than the more enduring reflective powers ; 

 whence the incapacity to advance beyond a certain 

 limit in reasoning, civilization and empire, seems to 

 follow. 



Taking therefore this stem, with a view to have in the 

 sequel only the pure Caucasians to examine, we place here 



THE ETHIOPIAN OR MELANIC STEM, 



such as it was marked out by the earliest writers of 

 antiquity. 



Under this denomination, it is desirable to arrange 

 the races, sprung from a real, or an apparent interunion 

 between the woolly haired and the bearded types, 

 distinguished by black, curly, undulating, or lank hair ; 

 a sufficient beard, with the features of a Caucasian 

 form partially and often supereminently displayed, 

 having the same typical structure, and the colour in- 

 tensely black, only when local circumstances indicate 

 those qualities to be so far accidental. It is distinct 

 from the sub-typical Malay, and the intermediate rami- 

 fications derived from it, by well marked characteristics, 

 notwithstanding, excepting where there is reason to be- 

 lieve, that the Malay Stem is itself crossed with Indo- 

 Caucasian tribes in the eastern provinces of India, 

 and in a great part of the southern. Excepting that 



