324 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



be accurately traced in detail on the basis of comparative 

 philology.^ (Compare p. 331.) 



The total number of human individuals at present 

 amounts to between 1,300 and 1,400 millions. In our 

 Tabular Survey (p. 333) 1,350 millions has been assumed as 

 the mean number. According to an approximate estimate, 

 as far as such a thing is possible, 1,200 millions of these are . 

 straight-haired men, only about 150 millions woolly-haired. 

 The most highly developed species, Mongols and Mediterra- 

 nese, far surpass all the other human species in numbers of 

 individuals, for each of them alone comprises about 550 

 millions. (Compare Friederich Muller's Ethnography, p. 30.) 

 Of course the relative number of the twelve species fluc- 

 tuates every year, and that too according to the law 

 developed by Darwin, that in the struggle for life the more 

 highly developed, the more favoured and larger groups 

 of forms, possess the positive inclination and the certain 

 tendency to spread more and more at the expense of 

 the lower, more backward, and smaller groups. Thus the 

 Mediterranean species, and within it the Indo-Germanic, 

 have by means of the higher development of their brain 

 surpassed all the other races and species in the struggle 

 for life, and have already spread the net of their dominion 

 over the whole globe. It is only the Mongolian species 

 which can at all successfully, at least in certain respects, 

 . compete with the Mediterranean. Within the tropical 

 regions, Negroes, Kaffres, and Nubians, as also the Malays 

 and Dravidas, are in some measure protected against the 

 encroachments of the Indo-Germanic tribes by their being 

 better adapted for a hot climate ; the case of the arctic 

 tribes of the polar regions is similar. But the other races, 



