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brown or even black brown. The growtb of tbe hair is 

 generally strong, the hair of the head more or less curly, the 

 hair of the beard stronger than in any of the other species. 

 The form of the skull shows a great development in breadth ; 

 medium heads predominate upon the whole, but long and 

 short heads are also widely distributed. It is only in this 

 one species of men that the body as a whole attains that 

 symmetry in all parts, and that equal development, which 

 we call the type of perfect human beauty. The languages 

 of all the races of this species can by no means be traced 

 to a single common primaeval language ; we must at least 

 assume four radically different primee^'^al languages. In 

 accordance with this we must also assume within this one 

 species four different races, which are only connected at 

 their root. Two of these races, the Basques and Caucasians, 

 now exist only as small remnants. The Basques, which in 

 earlier times peopled the whole of Spain and the south of 

 France, now inhabit but a narrow tract of land on the 

 northern coast of Spain, on the Bay of Biscay. The remnant 

 of the Caucasian race (the Daghestans, Tschercassians, 

 Mingrelians, and Georgians) are now confined to the districts 

 of Mount Caucasus. The language of the Caucasians as 

 well as that of the Basques is entirely peculiar, and can be 

 traced neither to the Semitic nor to the Indo-Germanic 

 primaeval languages. 



Even the languages of the two principal races of the 

 Mediterranean species — the Semitic and Indo-Germanic — 

 cannot be traced to a common origin, and consequently these 

 two races must have separated at a very early period. 

 Semites and Indo-Germani are descended from different 

 ape-like men. The Semitic race likewise separated at a 



