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BLEXBINa OF EACES. 



■181 



Neoarctic 



over a large part of Asia, we know not, but we maj look 

 forward to tlie time wlien tlie Europeans, especially the 

 Anglo-Saxon race, will in like manner spread over still laro-er 

 areas, displacing the aboriginal tribes of America^ and, like 

 their predecessors the Eed Indians, spreading from the Arctic 

 Eegion to Patagonia, so that one race and perhaps one 

 language maj eventually prevail throughout tl 

 and Neotropical provinces before alluded to. 



It may seem to us almost incredible now that the progress 

 of the arts has given us such powers of locomotion, ''such 

 facilities of traversing continents and circumnavigating the 

 globe, to say nothing of exchanging ideas instantaneously 

 with the inhabitants of the remotest regions, that nations, 

 even after they had advanced far in civilisation, could remain 

 so isolated as we know them to have done, 

 for example, in spite of their extraordinary genius "and 

 their spirit of commercial enterprise, could have continued 

 so ignorant of the geography of countries only a few hun- 



How 



dred miles distant 



om 



coasts of the Mediter 



and Black Seas. The superior power which science confers 



O-eometrical 



placement of the weaker by tHe more civilised nations is 

 accelerated to an extent without parallel in the history of 

 the past. Hence in future there will be a greater blending 

 of races, and a constant tendency towards the establishment 

 of one race and one language throughout the globe. It 



from 



reached its climax, physically and ^.^......^._..^, .,, ,,,« 



jro races. If, therefore, 

 we consider this differentiation as amounting only to one of 



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 times. 



much as mi 



distinct species. 



^'Gaudry on intermediate forms hetween the Upper Miocene 

 and living mammalia. —The relationship of man to a supposed 



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