104 SUPPLEMENTAL HISTORY OF MAN. 



to arrange and divide the animal kingdom in con- 

 formity with its organization, and not to describe 

 the species which compose it further than was 

 necessary to show the propriety of such ar- 

 rangement. 



Man, the immediate object of our consideration, 

 offers afield of observation so difficult of limitation, 

 that the whole of the following sheets, together with 

 a great combination of various learning and talent, 

 might well be employed on the subject. Necessarily 

 brief, however, will be our observations, which must 

 be confined to notices of some of the several minor 

 varieties in person and mind which Cuvier has in- 

 cluded in the three great divisions of Caucasian, 

 Mongolian, and Ethiopian. 



It will quickly be seen that it is necessary to 

 notice but a few even of these, for the attempt to 

 embrace all would be tedious, and the result would, 

 most probably, be unsatisfactory. An Englishman, 

 a Scotchman, an Irishman, a Welshman, nay, even 

 the natives of different bordering counties generally 

 offer some peculiarities of character sufficiently 

 general and hereditary to admit of the application 

 to them of the term varieties. Let us therefore 

 advert to such of the national distinctions only as 

 mark large portions of the human race known to 

 most of us by books alone. 



Previously, however, to entering further on the 

 subject of the diversities of man, it is hoped that a 

 few pages devoted to certain general points peculiar 

 to him as a species, will not be without interest to 



